So I definitely think of writing a lot more blog posts than I actually do. I’d say my thought-of to actually-posted ratio is probably like 20:1. Usually this is because I’m too lazy to actually type it out, or the idea is only a twitter-ish couple sentences – and I’m still woefully unable to post in that style.
But anyhow, here goes some Sheridan-inspired rapid fire on my first month or so in Houston:
Houston is big. Like, really big. So it’s not NYC or Mexico City or anything like that, but it’s still a lot of people, and it shows. The whole highway system is massively complex compared to anything in like Calgary, and (to me at least) often very impressively so. If I had a nice camera (and a helicopter?) I’d take pics of some of the sweet interchanges with multiple flyovers stacked up and crisscrossing mid-air. Of course this also means the traffic can be really bad, but overall I’d say it’s not as bad as I was expecting, whatever that was. I quickly learned what times to leave for / come home from work, and – moreover – what times not to do so.
Like most things in the U.S. (and everywhere…), having more money means immediate reward. I finally got hooked up with an “EZ tag” that lets me take the tollway and it just scans the sticker on your windshield, instead of having to wait in a stupidly long line just to pay like a $1 toll. Although sometimes it’s actually faster not to take the tollway, and to stick to the “feeder” roads that run parallel to it, providing access to the on/off traffic.
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