From the Texas Gulf Coast

Roads, light & electric miles.

A personal journal of weekend drives, amateur photography, and what it’s really like to travel Texas in a Model Y.

Start with the road trips

Sun rising over the Gulf from a sandy beach, gulls in flight, waves rolling in and sunlight reflecting on wet sand
The point of the drive

Not a travel expert. Not a professional photographer. Just curious about what’s around the next bend—and whether there’s a Supercharger nearby.

Featured stories

Practical routes, honest charging notes, and the photographs that made the trip worth taking.

Queen Isabella Causeway curving over Laguna Madre Bay toward South Padre Island, with a fishing pier in the foreground

Road Trip · Field Notes

Down the coast to Starbase

A long lens, a flat horizon, and one of the strangest roadside views in Texas.

Cargo ship African Bari Bird loaded with wind turbine blades, assisted by two tugboats

South Texas · Photography

Shipping along Corpus Christi Bay

One of the busiest oil and gas ports in the U.S.

Close-up of a sea turtle's head showing its patterned scales, held at a release event with a blurred crowd behind.

South Texas · Photography

Sea Turtle Rehab Release

A few shellbacked friends after rehab

Roy's Marine Blue Tesla Model Y Premium RWD parked on a residential street
Tesla Life

Meet “Of Course I Drive Myself.”

My Marine Blue Model Y is part vehicle, part road-trip experiment. This is where I keep the useful stuff: charging stops that actually work, real-world range lessons, and the moments when FSD gets interesting.

2026

Model Y

RWD

Premium

FSD

Supervised

Through my lens

Texas coastlines, roadside oddities, rockets, machines, and whatever makes me pull over.

SpaceX Starbase orbital launch tower against a blue sky, chopstick arm extended
Starbase

A great blue heron standing on a concrete shoreline with waves behind it
Heron

A brown pelican standing on wet concrete at the water's edge, its reflection below
Brown Pelican

About Roy

IT director on weekdays. Curious driver the rest of the time.

I’m based in Corpus Christi, Texas. I take pictures because the light looked good, plan charging stops because details matter, and write down what I learn so the next drive goes better.

This is the home for those notes—personal, practical, and proudly amateur.