Business Contacts
Mobile phone hire Verizon offers prepaid phones on 800 TO JOIN IN (256 4646).

Car hire Alamo car rentals on 800 462 5266 or email: international@goalamo.com.

Office rental Houston Site Acquisitions, 713 789 8700.

Secretarial services Burnett Staffing Specialists on 713 977 4777 or email: aliciah@burnettstaffing.com.

Excursions
If you have the time to travel southwest, the Brazos Bend State Park and George Ranch Historic Park, a 480-acre living history museum, are an hour away. (tpwd.state.tx.us/park/brazosand 281 545 9212) The park is home to more alligators than you want to know about and bald eagles. Ranch guests can see the dusty work of modern ranch life along or climb into an old fashioned tree house - and you're never too old for a tree house! Travellers staying in The Woodlands might consider a trip to the Prison Museum in Huntsville. It's… interesting. Buying death row souvenirs is optional. (txprisonmuseum.org) NASA's Johnson Space Centreis 25 miles south of Houston. Adjoining SpaceCenter is open for tourists. Skip the tedious theme-park style attractions for NASA tours and space programme artefacts (spacecenter.org).

Local Press
The New Times weekly is slanted toward younger readers, but provides expansive entertainment listings. The Houston Chronicle is the only daily paper and its online version offers comprehensive entertainment listings. Paper City, a slick free monthly, keeps slinky society women up on shopping trends.