Sunrise was like that before I understand it’s even worse now. Sunrise Mall was always (read: since 1992) a sad place, Padre Staples was rather better, but for anyone who knows Austin, it’s like Northcross Mall now. I think there’s something in that place that ties and devours the soul, bite by bite. I’ve returned a few times to visit friends and try to convince them to leave, leave, leave. The car was packed when I put on my cap and gown, and at 8 am the morning after the graduation lock-in I was on the road to Austin. It will come as no damn surprise that I moved out of that cesspit the very morning after high school graduation. Corpus Christi was where we went (mid to late 90s) because it was The Big City and More Fun than Aransas Pass. I went to high school in a small town just north of there. In many places the deck has rotted through, and our tour guide would not board either ship. The Pina and Santa Maria replicas are in drydock as they are no longer seaworthy. There are no guided tours of the Nina, moored at the Corpus Christi Marina, but can be viewed from the dock. The Pinta and Santa Maria are located at the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History. After a successful tour of 18 United States ports, they arrived at their permanent home in Corpus Christi in 1993. The three ships embarked on a tour of the Mediterranean and Atlantic ports of Europe in 19. They took five years to build and cost $6.5 million. The ships are reproductions built by Spain to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ voyages to the New World. The thing that really broke my heart was the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History. It’s right next to the second most abandoned mall I’ve ever been to. I drove down the street a few blocks one night to get dinner at the world famous Whataburger flagship “by the bay”- Ordered three burgers, every single one was prepared wrong… 0 for 3 at the best there is?Ĭorpus also has the deadest shopping mall I’ve ever seen, and I remember Crossroads Mall in Boulder. There are some dives that are cool, and some that are dumps, and a lot if that can be told by their policy on tolerating toothless women hanging around inside looking for a drink. No, not the one at the bottom of the 10 story atrium, it was tucked away in an empty corner of the building, wit it’s doors on the street outside. Maybe I’m wrong, but because of our hotel… Check out the asshole bait and switch action… It’s a bit out of date, as it neglects to mention that there is no lunch or dinner, so no room service, or any place that sells cooked food at all, and that on a Sunday night there really is only one employee in the entire building, the one who couldn’t find my reservation, and got pissy when I suggested he try an alternate spelling of my last name.Īt least there was a bar. The rest of the town is just falling apart. We didn’t go onboard the Lex this time, but I’m sure it’s still a great place to explore. Our son is 3.5 years old, and really, really, got into seeing the dolphins play. So this last week, the wife, son, and I drove up to C.C.
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