Corpus Christi

Thursday I drove south from Houston, towards Brownsville, Texas. On the way I made a small detour into Corpus Christi, a town which houses the WW2 aircraft carrier USS Lexington. I can see how the city draws tourists during the summer; the beaches look nice.

All pics here.

The Lexington was nicknamed Blue Ghost, because it was the only carrier not painted in any kind of camouflage, and because the Japs thought they'd sunk it four times, except they didn't. Suckers.


Some guns.


"Finely"? Really, peeps? Not "finally"? Gawd, I see several errors here. Sigh.


Around the world in a car 132 times...? Now there's some information you can use.


Corpus Christi skyline.


Nice beaches.


Uhm. Not sure if a dead fish is good advertisement for the tourism industry.


Eheheheheheeeeee. From the Bell Cobra 'chopper. It's still in use, all these years after the Vietnam war.


Some pics of the interior of the Lexington.