Motel 6 Austin South Airport

We heart Austin, TX!!!!

This is a super cool city. Granted we have only seen one area of Austin, but what we have seen we love. Our hotel is right in the heart of the Downtown. Walking distance to pretty much everything you would want to do, shop, grab a bite to eat, go for jog, see a movie or just sit and people watch on the capital lawn or one of the many parks along the river. 6th Street is where the party is at and most of the bars ...

Day 10
10/17/2009
San Antonio to Stonewall to Austin, TX

This morning was a slower start to the day than usual, however, that was somewhat predictable. We got up and started heading out to the San Antonio Mission National Historical Park which is comprised of four missions. Mission San Juan, San Jose, Conception, and Espada. They together form the NHP and are on ...

... there is a cluster of restaurants -- PF Changs, Fogo de Chao and other pricey places like that. But there are certainly a lot of bars that look interesting. Architecture here is interesting and pretty and it's nice and clean here generally. On my way back I saw big horses pulling a carriage. Folks were starting to head out for drinks as I was heading back around 9pm. I'm wiped. Time to sleep.

... and all around for there is much to see beyond the **** painting of Davy Crockett and various horse statuaries.
1.1 Not only is the granite flooring polished to a fine sheen, but it is also littered with "abstract" (pssh...) designs in varying degrees of sexual innuendo (would like very much to have Dr. Freud's opinion on the motivation behind the pink hearts-on-a-stick that don the staircase entrances).
1.2 The good public servants ...

... and trying to simultaneously enjoy a city, like Austin, and a national or state park, like McKinney Falls, seems futile. Both get short-changed and in the end, so do we. Given our month long stay in Nashville, we're really only just beginning the traveling portion of our adventure, so perhaps it's understandable that we haven't quite hit our stride yet. As for weather, car performance and health, we've been most fortunate!

... pretty much on the same page. She is also a modern thinking woman and has numerous goals and ambitions beyond childrearing, and she’s independent and enjoys her space and doesn’t NEED a husband. She doesn’t NEED to be taken care of. It sounds like we’re agreeing, and it’s close enough that we may date for a few months or a few years. But when the conversation is brought up later, amidst tears and plate throwing, it usually turns out ...

My brother Eric had been busy while I was gone. He showed up a few hours before I left for Asia (on a one-way ticket with no plans to return) and told me he had just gotten engaged. A few short months later, he got married. Then they got pregnant on the honeymoon. Then they had a baby girl. Then his infant girl went from a few weeks old to a few months old, and I could see from pictures that she was adorable. Then a few days before I ...

... days out there. Karen has family back in Mass, so they come back once a year and we try to meet up with them if at all possible. Karen and their kids stayed with us a few days on their last visit to New England while Tim had to work. On Monday we drove to Karen's house and stayed and visited then the three of us meet Tim for lunch,had a grand tour or there neighbor hood, which was very unusual because there is a small landing strip between some houses a few blocks away and a few hangars ...

... Thankfully, the internet enables a lot of easy research and has proved to be a great travel resource tool so we have compiled a three ring notebook full of information. But first the responsible things had to be completed such as suspending the newspaper and mail delivery; notifying the neighbors to watch the house; advising our son of our itenerary and requesting periodic checks on things; and setting up this Travel Blog/Log so we could share this trip ...

... Ann wasn't home right in time so Timber and me just chilled and talked over old times, our lives and experience, the time we had in Europe and the time I lived there. It was just great talking about that...and the best thing was that we were sitting there and talking there cause it was Ann's house: That meant my old workplace and her new place to work ... and that was actually the reason why we met ... the Chilton family ... brought us together. Without them we wouldn't even have met.