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Travel Blogs from Austin
Ho! Ho! Who?
... br> Tonight was the last of the open houses and it was mobbed. I have no idea how many people saw Santa, but it felt like it was in the hundreds. For a solid 90 minutes, people came filing in. And a I had some epiphanies sitting there in my chair as children, parents, grandparents and adults of all ages filed through. There must have been well over 1,000 pictures taken tonight. At least two newborns were placed in my arms who were experiencing their ...
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 ...
From where i left off....
... 20 minutes then went on his way, the ride was excellent and before we knew it we were in the middle of the city. Now by this point our plans had hit a stumbling block, the weather where we were was around the 36-38 degree mark and it was HOT, we had started to become used to it, but the lack of water at times was hard to pull through. Ahead of us the outlook was bleak it was getting hotter and the distances between places was getting longer, much longer! We decided after ...
Austin, TX: The Unusual Nature of Austin
In Fort Worth, TX 3-y.o. Dresden functioned as our alarm clock as he called out to his mom around 5-ish. I was up two hours later for a nice robust cup of bitter black coffee and quickly texted Binh about the change of plan; he had driven towards Austin in the hope to rendezvous with us for lunch and was within 1.5-hour from the city limit when he made the U turn back to Houston. Alex had to work for a few hours that Friday morning so this ...
Leaving
I've recently started to believe, better late than never, that if we fear life, we fail to truly live. This summer I hope to be outside my comfort zone quite a bit. I have a feeling I won't be disappointed. Many loved ones have talked with me about this trip as though it will inevitably lead to disaster...surely, they (you?) say, I will at least be pickpocketed, if not downright robbed, kidnapped, or drugged. I can assure each of you that ...