Serenity at Lake Travis
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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 ...
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 ...
BBQ in Austin, TX, yea!
... talking music with Eric. Good times. No hangover since it was organic wine. And then spent the day doing more uninspiring paperwork.
I had to stop doing paperwork so I researched the best barbeque in Texas and found that the apparent best barbeque in North America was in Austin: Flinder’s BBQ. Well, I went there and lined up. During the line up a blind guy started crossing the road and then stopped in the middle of the road ...
Headin' Out
... if I was going to contract Hepatitis A from the questionable food.
Boarding the plane, I noticed all the different accents and the different dialects that surrounded me. While I did prepare myself for the language and dialect differences, it was still bizarre to actually be submerged into the differences. My underdeveloped ear for accents made it hard for even general conversations to flow smoothly and to be a breeze.
This was my first ...
Keep Austin Weird
... he can learn to barbecue the Texan way and I’m only too happy to oblige.
We had a cleansing ale, and Prosecco to finish off our dinner and made our way back to the hotel. It was such an unexpected afternoon but we think it’s been one of the best on our trip.
I'll leave you with 'Tyler's Blues' a song by Shane Smith from the album we bought today. It's an acoustic live version so it's a bit noisy and not so polished but hope you still enjoy.
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