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Big Rig Trucker: Big Al visits USS Texas in Houston

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Big Al Owens, the Big Rig Trucker

The USS Texas was an American battleship which is anchored in the port of Houston.

The ship is located across from the San Jacinto Monument, which honors the rich tradition of the Texas Independence movement.

I toured the ship and was fascinated by its great history. This ship actually served in both World Wars.

I was too scared of heights to go up too high on some of the lookout perches. I did see the Captains quarters though.Smile. -Big Al



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Big Al in Houston, TX



2011-04-27 - La Porte, TX - Photo by Innocent Bystander.
Big Al Owens, the Big Rig trucker, was in Houston, TX in April, 2011. While there, on business, he took time out to visit the Battleship Texas and to send a travel report back to Columbia. If you go: La Porte, TX is near Houston. Go by Graceland in Memphis, TN; stop at New Carlisle, AK for Barbecue at Nick's (almost as good as B&B in Columbia); see the Clinton Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas; then hang a left in Texarkana and head straight for Houston and LaPorte. It's close to 1,000 miles, just over 15 hours, from the historic Courthouse in Columbia, KY. Apologies: There are too many good eats along the way for us to catalog them all, but over indulgence could slow the trip. Unfortunately, Big Al did not share food reports for this mission.
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Big Al in Houston, TX: The Battleship Texas



2011-04-27 - La Porte, TX - Photo by Big Al Owens.
An overcast day made more intimidating Battleship Texas, a vessel with a glorious past and now a museum ship at San Jacinto State Park in Texas, which struck fear into enemies of the United States in two world wars. It fascinated the Big Rig Trucker, who toured the ship and it's Captain's Quarters, but the otherwise intrepid photographer's acrophobia struck his fear nerves and he didn't go to the higher levels. More on the USS Texas, this one the second by the name, can be found at USS Texas at Wikipedia.
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Big Rig Trucker at USS Texas: Sex and the sailor



2011-04-27 - San Jacinto State Park, Houston, TX - Photo by Big Al Owens.
The letters S-E-X was still a three-letter word in polite company when this poster was somewhat avant garde for the times. It is reminiscent of the once a year boys' health movies at the Columbia High School auditorium in the 1950s where where War Department films frankly discussed matters off limits at the supper table, warning the males of the school about the "cheap, crawly feeling," which followed commercial encounters with the other gender.
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