Holiday Inn Express Austin North

... live music every night.

Once we got our stuff up into the hotel we decided to go walk around. The movie guru in my life wanted to find this place called the Texas Chili Parlor, this is where they filmed the bar scene in the movie Death Proof. They also had some great chili which enjoyed for a late lunch. After that we walked around the Capital building and did a little shopping as we made our way back to 6th street. We walked up ...

... national mission trail. The missions are very interesting, with relics left and just amazing detail to archeology and architecture. The missions are about 2-3 miles apart each time, along with aquifers, dams and walls as well as the chapels. The chapels are still in current use for masses. All of this is in regards to the Spanish missions that came to the area to try and ...

Alaska Airlines I hear just started doing this direct flight from Seattle to Austin which is cool because it got me here in 3.5 hours. Another 20 min public bus ride for 75 cents and I was at my hotel. I spent the early evening walking around from 6th @ Guadelupe down to 2nd, as far east cas Neche, north to the State Capitol and a bunch of streets in between.

I did the game of count the ...

... on Costgo the wholesale department store where everything is still in the boxes or thrown on bench tables, but amazingly cheap. One opens in Melbourne soon.

The gallon of milk cost $160 odd dollars, Lona spent $98 dollars on her own, well sorry I did get a 16 GB memory stick. MS & Bob stocked up a bit too.



All of us except MS has a Nanny Nap this afternoon, she was just dropping off when the phone went so took up more sewing. She makes the most ...

... could always ride my bike to visit Minh as long as it's not much more than a 50 mile ride. Speaking of which, several people on the forum are also interested in riding and it turns out that there's some kind of big used bike market happening in September. I'm hoping that I'll be able to find someone to ride with when I get there, because I probably wouldn't ride much alone. More at http://www.beforethecubicle.com/

... by a long silence, broken only finally by 1 of 3 responses:

1. The girl says she definitely wants kids and couldn’t date anyone who doesn’t, and in fact people who "hate" children (the way I obviously do) must hate themselves and mankind and Jesus. So I find out she wasn’t real thrilled about the first topic. And she’s ****** because she now realizes she shouldn’t have ordered a salad because it doesn’t matter if I think ...

... home, after only a couple of years abroad, she turned 1. To recap, my brother had a girlfriend a day before I left, then when I got home, he had a 1-year-old. Time flies.

Eric is basically just a giant teddy bear, so he's an awesome dad. Libby was tons of fun to be around and we caught her at an amazing age. In front of our eyes, in the few months we were back in the States, she went from crawling to standing, then ...

... the week, we did go the Potomac Mall, one day,  went to the village on the base, on day, Shopping another day.....kinda boring huh? Sunday Oct 19,   I spent most of the day trying to empty our gray and black tank. Both tanks hold a least 30 gallons (maybe up to 50 gallons. We bought an external 30 gallon waste tank, it has a handle in front and 2 wheels in back. The site we have is great except for sewage, we even saw 5 deer grazing on our site as we were having supper on Sunday. Back ...

After Houston, we were off to Austin, TX to spend the weekend with Lauren (who went to PA school with Kara) and her husband Adam and dog Molly. We got there around 9:00 pm with just enough time to change out of our driving clothes and then we were off to dinner for our 9:15 reservation. We met up with some of Lauren and Adam's friends for dinner at Adam's favorite restaurant Ranch 616. We were told that if ...

So, now we're in Austin, Tx on the first day we rode our bikes down by the river and then went out to 6th street, which they close off on thursday nights and went to the bars and stuff. yesterday we hung out and ran some errands and then today we went to whole foods and had lots of delicious food and tongiht we're probably going to see the bats come out at sunset under the bridge and then we'll probably go down to barton springs and south austin bike rides here i come!