Finished up the ATX trip listening to Rosanne Cash, Josh Ritter and The Little Willies free at Auditorium Shores, just across from the best photo-op for the Austin City Skyline. The weather held up all night, but started pouring the day K's Dad and I decided to go T-shirt hunting.
Mission Accomplished.
Notes on the Great State of Texas:
Sure texas law requires you to make a pilgrimage to the Alamo whenever you visit the state, but that doesn't mean you have to see the Riverwalk too. The parts near the big mall were overcrowded and touristy, the rest was pretty empty. Kind of a nice little greenway walk, but not worth the drive from Austin.
If you find yourself in San Antonio: Get a guidebook and a good map. There must be something to do there, but without these resources, you'll never figure it out.
Austin is Asheville with more money and tacos. Whereas A'ville has the hospital and Biltmore Estate, plus any number of bars and coffeehouses, Austin has Dell, Texas Instruments, the State Government and lots of little tech companies to employ you. Other than that and the plethora of excellent Mexican food, they're esentially the same city.
Texans wave to strangers more than Marylanders do -- that is to mean they wave to strangers. More people waved or otherwise greeted us as we walked or drove around town in one week than have ever done so in almost 2 years in B'more.
W is not as popular as you might think. Sure, we spent most of our time in Travis County, but the excess of anti-Bush stickers and T-shirts was heartening.
Seeing the countryside outside the cities, you can understand why they fought so hard to take it from the Mexicans.
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