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Travel Blogs from Austin
Ho! Ho! Who?
... to that chance.
I shrugged and said, "Sure, sounds like a good time." And then I couldn't help but wonder just why she thought I'd be the best person for the job. "Is it because I'm fat?" She just laughed but I had my suspicions...
Candi had to get approval from my boss to clear my hours for the gigs, but she wanted to at least know if I could commit to it. About a week later, Harold, my boss, told me he gave Candi the go-ahead and she'd be ...
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
... of a pilgrimage for Kelsey - I also found $2 on the floor and that paid for our bottles of water, brilliant!). We checked out Waterloo Records and Book People and did even more window shopping before walking all the way down Sixth Street and back to Congress where we jumped on a bus and went straight back to the hostel.
One of the hostel volunteers, Monica, was running a little movie night slash free dinner, and who were we to say no to Bill & Ted's Excellent ...
Austin, TX: The Unusual Nature of Austin
... and mandate. The other must visit place will be visited in November 2012.
I wished the Austin tour book was more picturesque; I would have found out about "the bats at the Ann W. Ric*********gress Avenue Bridge". It is the largest urban colony of bats in N. America! I'd certainly brave the 100+ degrees evening temperature to see 750,000 to 1.5 million bats flying out to feed. Each evening they consume an estimated ...
Anniversary Weekend!
... places we should see. And then we talked about family - I learned more about my dad’s side of the family - which is priceless. I was so glad that we had the chance to get to know my uncle more. Then we headed back to the camp for the night.
Friday morning we woke up, and went up to the park office to see if they had availability for the night, but turned out they were all booked. We tossed around the idea of finding another park, but decided that ...