{"id":1495,"date":"2010-01-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:10:00","slug":"thats-my-world-trip-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"That’s my World – Trip to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went on an overnight business trip to Houston to last week.<\/p>\n

Sunrise at the Tulsa Airport.<\/p>\n

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Ugly duck on campus of a customer.<\/p>\n

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I went on a walk from our hotel to do some geocaching before dinner. I came upon this bus stop. It may be the most expensive bus stop in existence. Lots of structure but seats for only two or three people and not much shelter from the rain. What’s up with that? Also look at the sidewalk. My walk from my driveway to the front porch at home is wider than that. Not many people use the sidewalks anyway, service workers from the local hotels and restaurants and geocachers.<\/p>\n

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While I’m picking on Houston it is almost impossible to cross the streets. See the stripes in the road? In most cities that would designate a pedestrian crossing in Houston I think its a bonus points area. Look at the pipes oaring over the boulevards. I don’t know, are they unfinished pedestrian bridges or are they bridges for acrobats? Or is it a benefit project for unemployed welders and pipefitters? Or maybe they are actual pipelines and its cheaper to span the road than go underneath? I need to know.<\/p>\n

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Below is the intersection a pedestrian is supposed to use. Me, I think its for the birds. A pedestrian trying to use this to cross the street would be the frog in Frogger.<\/p>\n

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Below is Williams Tower in the Galleria area. It’s over 900 feet tall and is supposed to be the tallest building in the country outside an urban core. <\/p>\n

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One customer we called had a model of a production platform in their lobby. The model was very impressive. I would love to see the actual facility. My educated guess that the total package including the platform, topside facilites, and the drilling and completion of the wells cost around one gazillion dollars. About the same as the bus stop.<\/p>\n

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If you didn’t like that, they had their own inhouse jungle nearby. No geocaches though. They need one. Be nice to look for a jungly cache with no snakes.<\/p>\n

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Time to head back to Tulsa.<\/p>\n

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For views of planet from all over the world please check out That’s My World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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