Before taking a couple of columns off for travel purposes, let me wrap up recent discussions here on the travel theme.

Houston, do you copy?

At last, a couple of ex-Houstonians in the IE have spoken up in support of their former hometown.

After a short stay in Space City, I wrote Sept. 3 that downtown had been eerily empty on weekends . (I got a hotel downtown off a light-rail train stop from the airport and got around the city via bus and rail.)

“You did not do your research before you went to Houston,” says Frank Austin, who lived in that city for nearly four decades before retiring to Redlands.

“The busiest area in Houston is the West Side in the Galleria area. Anybody from Houston will tell you that,” Austin continues. “Downtown is a business area. Look at East State Street in d

See Full Page