Free 72 oz. Steak proclaims billboards for hundreds of miles on every road leading to Amarillo, Texas. The Big Texan is an old style tourist trap-a place with a gimmick and a ton of odds and ends for sale. In addition to a large dinning room reminiscence of Gunsmoke’s Long Branch, there is a pretty large gift shop filled with all manner of western themed items. Among the more interesting things was a series of mugs in the shape of rattlesnakes, one of them just like the one Craig Ferguson has on his desk on the Late, Late Show. The…
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The Galveston Dolphin Tour
For me there are some things that just never get old. Taking a boat to look for dolphins is one of those things. And dolphins there were. We found a whole pod of them following a shrimping boat around stealing fish from the nets. The Shrimpers don’t like this, just as they don’t like pelicans eating the scraps at the dock. But a shrimp boat tosses out a lot of stuff that isn’t shrimp, and there is always a cloud of birds around the back end of a shrimp boat. Like everyone else, I was a bit worried that BP…