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The Baytown 100

One hundred things to do before you can say you know the town. Check them off; the page keeps your count in your browser. Nobody has done all hundred. Prove us wrong.

One hundred things to do before you can say you know the town. Check them off; the page keeps your count in your browser. Nobody has done all hundred. Prove us wrong.

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The water (1–15)

1. Ride the Lynchburg Ferry.
2. Ride it at 4:30 a.m. on a weekday with the crews.
3. Ride it at sunset.
4. Watch a tanker pass under the Fred Hartman from the ferry.
5. Drive the bridge westbound at dusk.
6. Drive it in a norther with the wheel in both hands.
7. Launch a kayak at Bayland.
8. Catch a redfish from the Nature Center's designated spot.
9. Fish the pier at Goose Creek Park with a kid.
10. Watch the sunset from Bayland with a folding chair.
11. Eat shrimp at Thompson's with the boats coming in.
12. See a spoonbill in the shallows in winter.
13. Wade at Sylvan Beach because it's the closest sand.
14. Watch a storm build over the bay from the Hyatt terrace.
15. See the ship channel at night from the bridge with someone else driving.

The food (16–40)

16. The pressed Cuban at 4 a.m.
17. Doughnut Wheel kolaches before
6. 18. Denna Donuts before
6. 19. Crawfish at Black Bayou in March, in the parking lot.
20. The Rooster's burger.
21. Aguachile at El Sinaloense.
22. The michelada with the shrimp on the rim.
23. Fajitas at Bocanegra's on a Market Saturday.
24. The number-four at El Toro.
25. Parrillada for two at Mi Parrillada.
26. Two pupusas at El Rey.
27. Pho at Noodle Master.
28. Dumplings at Dumpling Time.
29. Shawarma at Shawarma In Town at seven.
30. A frozen daiquiri to go, tape over the straw.
31. A glass at Yepez between the vines.
32. Heart and Whisk before it sells out.
33. A breakfast taco from a truck at a plant gate.
34. A plate lunch from a truck on Garth.
35. A church crawfish boil.
36. Gumbo at the VFW when they make it.
37. Anchor & Hearth with the plants coming on.
38. A kolache from the Market.
39. Boudin from a gas station on
146. 40. A 3 a.m. plate at Denny's after a turnaround shift you didn't work.

The town (41–65)

41. Art Alley, day.
42. Art Alley, night.
43. The Market at Town Square, third Saturday, before eleven.
44. Grito Fest, the grito itself.
45. The Christmas parade, first Thursday, front row with a candy bag.
46. Nurture Nature on the shuttle.
47. A Birding Week walk in November.
48. A show at the Little Theater.
49. A five-dollar film night at the Lee College PAC.
50. A Navigators game.
51. Friday-night football at Stallworth, the Goose Creek district stadium, for all three schools.
52. And Barbers Hill's Eagle Stadium.
53. A council meeting, in person.
54. A listening tour in your district.
55. The library at 2 p.m. in August.
56. Get the library card.
57. Sit in the library lobby for an hour and watch the town.
58. The Wetlands Center with a kid.
59. Pirates Bay at opening on a June weekday.
60. Calypso Cove with a toddler.
61. Max Bowl on a rainy Saturday.
62. Hooky on a Friday.
63. ShowBiz for the matinee.
64. The Crosby Fair and Rodeo in June.
65. Texas Avenue on a Tuesday at two, to see what's not there yet.

The history (66–80)

66. Stand where Brownwood was and find a curb.
67. The San Jacinto Monument's elevator.
68. The eighteen-minute battlefield.
69. The reenactment on April
21. 70. Find a Goose Creek oil-field marker.
71. Find the three towns' old boundaries on a map.
72. Learn where the tunnel was.
73. Read the plaque for Fred Hartman.
74. The historical markers walk downtown.
75. The Sterling library's local-history room.
76. The Texas Avenue then-and-now on this site.
77. Lynchburg, the oldest crossing.
78. Cedar Bayou's old settlement site.
79. Mont Belvieu's salt-dome story, from the highway at dusk.
80. Find someone who drove the tunnel and ask.

The plants (81–90)

81. Watch a flare at night and know it's not an emergency.
82. Smell the sulfur on a south wind and know what it is.
83. Save the CAER line in your phone.
84. Sign up for Baytown Alert, ReadyHarris and ChambersWARNS.
85. See the plants lit up from the Hyatt terrace.
86. See them from the Nature Center's west end.
87. Drive 146 at shift change once, on purpose, to understand.
88. Meet a turnaround crew at the Cuban Cafe at four.
89. Know your evacuation zone.
90. Read the "What was that?" page before you need it.

The seasons (91–100)

91. The morning after a January norther, anywhere on the water.
92. Spring migration at the Nature Center at seven.
93. A March patio.
94. A June sunrise before the heat.
95. The first September front.
96. All three October Saturdays.
97. The Turkey Trot.
98. The lights at Town Square.
99. The plants sharp in December cold air.
100. Tell someone from Houston what they've been missing, and mean it.

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