Galveston, Texas was where Hurricane Ike made landfall on the US this weekend. Galveston is just south of Houston, and was one of the places Stephen and I visited when we did a tour of Texas last year. The fact that I've actually been to the places that you see on the news makes this natural disaster much more real to me than previous ones. It's probably just my fondness for island and coastlines, but I really enjoyed visiting that part of Texas. We stayed in Seabrook, just north of Clear Lake and northwest of Kemah. We stayed there a couple of days, and spent just a day in Galveston itself.