Corpus Christi

I just got back to Austin. I was in Corpus Christi yesterday to play at the Water Street Festival. This year was the fourth year they’ve had it going, so me and Jim went down Friday afternoon and played a spot there. We got to see our old friend Sue Donaho. Sue is the major mover & shaker behind the festival. Sue has been a friend of mine for years and years, she and her husband Mike used to have a this funky little record shop down on 5^th St. here in Austin, before they decided that life at the beach would be less stressful, after our trip , I can see why…Corpus has everything you’d ever need….there was lots of shrimp….and lots of beer, and the Texas Surf Museum. I should add at this point, that I like almost any kind of museum, and the southwest has lots of attractions like this…..The Texas Ranger Museum in Waco for instance has lots of old guns and stuff from the history of the Rangers, Waco also has the Dr. Pepper Museum, with a still operating soda fountain, but the Texas Surf Museum is the tops. It’s got a good collection of surf boards of course, but it also has a general history of surfing, and for my money the best attraction there was the recreation of what a surfers bedroom should look like…a single bed with a green fuzzy bedspread, 2 Fender guitars (1Jaguar, 1 Strat) a TV with a Pong game attached, and a turntable. It was like a trip back in time.

Anyway that was about all that happened except for it being really hot, and hot weather in Texas in June, isn’t really news.