Observations:
- The Miller sign at Highway 6 is now gone. It never lit up for years, anyway!
- Lawrence Marshall-Hempstead is really starting to look run down now. It closed over two years ago...
- A lot of skunks on the road. Dead, of course.
- Did you know that Cy-Fair dates back to the 1940s? You can tell from the outside!
- The Target near Spring Cypress is renovating, even though it opened in 2005. However, the IKEA also renovated last year (it opened 2005)
- Passing near the Hardy Toll Road, saw what I thought was the shortest train ever. Five or six cars, that was it.
- Greenspoint was interesting, saw the declining Greenspoint Mall for the first time (outside only): empty anchors, the Macy's (almost greenish, you could see the Foley's labelscar), and the new theater with tacky facade. Also 70s-looking office towers. Still, it was interesting, as Greenspoint was a 1970s edge city, before it fell to crime.
- After passing 45, the Tollway is at its oldest point, and unfortunately, it shows.
- The airport was easy to get into, but had a very long road, with various turnoffs to different terminals. Also some tacky 80s-looking crowns at the entrance.
- We missed the exit back to the freeway (it was poorly marked). After going south of the loop, John F. Kennedy was poorly-maintained.
- Going back via 45, I noted that the McDonald's outside Splashtown had changed its sign! It used to be (until very recently, apparently), been the 80s/90s script:
- The Woodlands has a strange strip mall. Once I considered it quite a refreshing change from the drab strip malls, it was an odd mix of Greco-Roman-Gothic-Islamic architecture. Very strange.
- Two cows off of 105--one of them a bull, of course--were caught in the act.
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