1110 Carriage House Inn
Travel Blogs from Austin
Ho! Ho! Who?
*** All names have been changed to protect identities. ***
About three or four weeks ago, Candi, the manager of the lounge at the hotel where I work came up to me and abruptly asked without preface, "Hey, you wanna be Santa this year?"
I was sitting in my department office with two of my colleagues at the time. I was both intrigued and confused. I had no idea what she was really asking as I had no frame of reference. So naturally, I asked, "What ...
At Ollivander's
No. I didn't get a letter from Hogwarts although that would have been cool. However, I did go to buy my first pair of cowboy boots and another for Shilpa. I walked into Allens Boots and my first reaction was Oh **** ! There were rows after rows with thousands of boots and I had no clue how to find a pair. I asked one of the guys about how to fit a shoe and he explained. And then he said very slowly in a very Texan ...
Keep Austin Weird
... tagline BIG. FAT. DONUTS. What could possibly go wrong? Enter the monstrous fried donuts that Kelsey and I devoured with reckless abandon. Kelsey had a donut filled with hot chocolate fudge, topped with fudge icing, and covered in banana and caramelized strawberries, and I had the "Big Mother Clucker" covered in fried chicken and honey butter. It was heaven in a little cardboard rectangle. It was the filthiest thing we'd eaten in America (I know, big call). And it was delicious. ...
Austin, TX: The Unusual Nature of Austin
... arrival. I took the time to read about Austin in a guidebook and found an interesting restaurant called Lambert's Downtown Barbecue on West 2nd Street in the Schneider Brothers Building. Do NOT eat here! The place is overpriced for a small serving of meat with bad service; plus, they didn't have Dr. Pepper cake or fried blackberry pie as advertised. However, I must admit that the coffee-rubbed brisket had an interesting taste...you could get ...
Geography Lesson
We went to the dump today to drop off a truck load of moving boxes and packing material. I was wearing a T-shirt I got when I was on the Landaff, NH fire department. An old-timer working at the dump saw the back of my shirt and asked, "Where's Landaff?"
"About twenty-one hundred miles northeast of here," I said.
He then asked, "That's still in Texas, though?"
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Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Room service
- Free parking
- Kitchenette