Picked up Matt from the airport yesterday. This is so cool. Our daughter visited us here on the island in December. Now our son is here for the weekend in March.
The Corpus Christi Airport is simple. It’s not like DIA in Denver. Departures are on the lower level. Arrivals on the upper level. You go up the escalator and there is the concourse. The gates are numbered; one through six. You don’t really even need a gate number. From the top of the escalator you can see every gate. Checking the screen for arrivals to see if his flight was on time, every single flight for the day was on one screen. Every single flight for the day was also from Dallas or Houston. That’s it.
No checked bags. An easy walk out. Here’s how small the airport is: from the top of the escalator to go back down to ground level, you can look out the window into the parking lot and see the car. No train. No shuttle required. No sir. Not like DIA in Denver.
We’re showing Matt the sights. We drove down the beach. We drove past Horace Caldwell Pier and watched porpoises and sea turtles at the ship channel. We showed him black skimmers at Jetty Beach. We’ve been to the marina park, the ferry landing, Paradise Pond, and dinner at Juan’s. Coffee on the patio this morning. A walk on the beach.
He can do this.
