...as Marge Simpson so eloquently put it..."It's so clean and bland!" I was driving on 290 heading home from Austin yesterday, and I decided to take Highway 6 instead of driving through Houston in the hope of maybe saving a little time. Well, I'm driving south on Highway 6, and that has got to be the most boring and depressing road ever. Strip mall after strip mall, all the same stores, all the same bland brick red color. It was so monotonous, and I'm not talking about a bunch of McDonald's, because those are everywhere anyways. There were nothing but Home Depots, Targets, Wal Marts, Krogers, HEBs, and this pizza store called "Pepperoni's". The subdivisions all looked the same, too, and they all seemed to have, "Oak", "Wood", or "Park" in their names. There was no personality or individuality in ANYTHING. All I could think was "When will this end? When will I see something that I havent' already seen 50 times in the past half hour?" Don't get me wrong, it was a nice looking area and the houses looked nice, but damn I was glad to get home. ...and the worst part it, I would have gotten home 30 minutes earlier taking the freeways, because of all the stoplights!
You should take Highway 6 all the way down to Galveston (well, I guess it technically ends in Hitchcock). It will make you appreciate the part you drove.
What part of Houston do you live in? Im guessing by the loop, yeah 290 would have definitley been the faster route.
I drove it all the way to 1764. Sure, Alvin/Santa Fe/Hitchcock may not look as nice as Katy or Sugarland, but at least that area has some character and there isn't a Quizno's every 50 feet...
I live in Texas City, actually. I guess I take after my dad a little bit. That guy ALWAYS took backroads when he could...didn't like driving on freeways at all...
You just described 90% of Houston. I've long said one of my pet peeves about Houston is it's lack of planning. We have the climate to grow great plants and a lot of green spaces and don't take advantage of it. I think it's just one of the things that leads to Houston poor image.
Luna's is pretty good. Go to Bravo's if you want some REALLY good Tex-Mex. Their refried beans are made with actual lard. Gringo's is good, though it's hard to get a table sometimes. Have you tried the Ryan's that just opened up? All you can eat steak on the weekends...best deal in town...
Hey, steak is steak! Besides, I always get my steaks well done, so they all taste the same after all that cooking anyways. Seriously, the steak there is pretty good. It's probably not the highest quality cut of meat, but pretty damn good considering you're paying 8 bucks...
HEY! i grew up in that area for 15 years! my parents still live there! we love it! i wouldn't live anywhere else in Houston.
Have you ever noticed that it seems like I 10 is a mirror on Hwy 6? Everything North of 10 is exactly the same as everything South of 10 but in reverse
I live off 6 too, down in Missouri City. I agree though, its one boring drive. I never drive too far on it though because of all of the stop lights. Wastes way too much time.
I lived right off of Clay and highway 6 and yeah that has got to be the most lights of any city in America. Horribly monotonous. That being said, drve down Clay Road past Barkers Cypress and you run out of subdivisions and strip malls. Problem is it's such a hot area out there, north of I-10, west of Highway 6, that the strip malls and yuppie golfcourse neighborhoods are starting to venture out to these areas. I always thought that i I moved back to Houston, I'd like to find a house out in those more rural areas. But by the time I make it back there there won't be any left.
i live off of six at bissonett. i mean i really dont know what you expect to be so freaking exciting about a highway.. the only interesting roads in houston, in terms of "view"..are maybe..59 going by the summitt.. I10 going by the skyline of downtown...or 610 going by the astrodome and reliant... and maybe youll see some cool stuff down westheimer once in a while on a saturday night... other than that... i dont see how highway 6 is so extremely hardcore boring compared to everything else... i mean there are even a couple adult video stores..and "massage parlors" down near I10.. thats not boring.. dont you look over there and wonder what the hell is going on inside?.. not every road has that.. and come to think of it...there is some really fat guy, with a beard and a neck brace...who walks down 6 near beechnut all the way to bellaire.. i see him all the time and i have for years..he always has a beard sunglasses a hat..and a walki talki... and when ever a van drives by he raises his hand... the guy really creeps me out...because i dont think hes an actual law enforcement type person..i think hes just some crazy guy who thinks hes important... you should drive down there some time and look for him... hes been doing it for years...and i dont know his actual purpose.. hes also been wearing that next brace for years... now how is that boring? also, i always see these gigantic wide load trucks with police escorts about every 4 days going down 6 caring these huge huge pieces of equipment... i dont know what the hell they are, they look like gigantic parts of a factory or something.. but they always have about 5 police escorts with them..and i see them every so often...and i always wonder where they are going down near 90...on 6..theres a prison... and one time they had a bunch of guys break out ..and they had this huge manhunt..so when youd drive by..you saw about 80 cop cars on the side of the road..about to start looking... another time a wanted criminal was running from the cops and committed suicide in a newly built house next to our neighborhood..bissonett and 6...thats not boring... the ramp bridge type thing on 6 that goes over alief clodine..every time i go up on top of that i look over and try to see if i can make out the skyline of downtown.. or if i can see the tower by the galleria..sometimes i can... its a nice view from up there.. also when you are up there..there is a billboard for some real estate agent.. some old guy..and hes making the worst face ever..its such a terrible picture of him..i cant believe they made a billboard out of it... i think his name is harvey something...look for it..its right by the golf course on 6 and alief clodine... so..in conclusion now that ive thought about it a little i dont think 6 is boring at all... if youre bored than YOU are boring...just look a little closer at everything... Ive driven on that highway my whole life almost every day.. so i have to defend my baby...
Holy Freakin ****!!!!! I've seen that guy so many times during my childhood. He also walks through that trailer park behind where the old Van Binh's Self Defense was at. Damn Holden, you must be really close to where I grew up: Keegan's Woods, behind the Food Lion that was open for like a month and went out of buisness because of the 20/20 report. Now my parent's backyard is a corn field where those prisoners work. The corn is animal feed or something, because it's not edible, no matter how hard you cook it.
