[slowcamaro]

So im in Magnolia. My sister keeps asking me what I want to do while im here and I have no idea what the area even has to offer. Send me some ideas of things I should check out...cars...music...

[Manic Mechanic]

SlowCamaro, you're in the back of "Old Magnolia". This means you're closer to the drive in movie theater out in Waller and about an even split between the actual towns of Magnolia and Tomball. Also, you're out in the sticks, without a car you are definately screwed. Out where your sister lives there's not any car meets or live music venues, just a few small Honky-Tonks, dollar store, gas stations, and Mom & Pop restruants. With a car you can get to the towns within 20 minutes but that's about it.

The nearest highway to you is FM2920, which when you take east, or left, will take you strait into Tomball where it becomes Main St. if you stay on it and go through town you'll travel through many lights in the suburbs until about 15+ miles later you arrive in Spring and I-45 where the meet Gopanoz just mentioned happens. It's also the meet on LS1 tech I mentioned earlier as the 2920 and I-45 meet. If you take Nichols Sawmill Rd. East, which is the main road of travel from your sisters house it will take you strait into the Magnolia city limits. This is a typical small american town but the new growth and the adjoining town of "The Woodlands" is still on the other side of Magnolia city from there by another 13 or more miles depending on where you're going.

I'm running out of time but it would be good to goto Wal-Mart in Tomball and pick up two maps, one of the greater Houston area as it's big and most of the things of major interest are on that map, and the other of the NW Suburbs if it includes Magnolia. You won't go many places away from Houston starting where you are other than Bryan/Colledge station and for that you'll need a state map.

Once you have the maps locate the towns I mentioned and note the highways that connect them. There are two loops around Houston, 610 loop is the smaller one around downtown and is good for switching highways when traveling through Houston or just getting to a destination in Houston. The other loop is Beltway 8, or The Beltway. It is a larger loop that circles the major metropolitan area and most of it is toll road. It is good for us getting from here to a near-by community or the next freeway in order to continue our travel into Houston. If you went into Tomball on 2920 and turn S. or right onto Hwy 249 you'll being going through Cypress into NW Houston and the Willowbrook Mall area, just past the Mall you'll hit the beltway and can go E towards I-45 for going into Downtown Houston and on through to Galveston etc. Or you can go West to head towards 290 and I-10 on the W. side of Houston. Not much worth seeing is on the NE or E side of Houston. The drag strip is near Baytown on the far eastern edge of Houston going E. on I-10 twowards Louisiana.

Also from where you're at to get into Houston the quickest, you would need to get over to 2920 on your east by a few miles using Roberts Cemetary Rd. and use 2920 east about a mile or two it to hook up to Mueschki (MUES-ski). Take Mueschki due South all the way until it ends at US 290. 290 goes east all the way into NW Houston and ends at the 610 loop.

I'll tell you about Texas BBQ and recommended Beers next since you are over 21. What's your name and how long are you staying?

Vernon

This post has been edited by Manic Mechanic: Jan 29 2008, 03:37 PM