Best Western Austin South

... to squeeze in. I welcome your input! Leave some love. :) 3/29/10 - Hmmm... I don't see a way for me to post general trip updates without also tying them down to a certain city. I may just put Austin for now that way you guys can comment on them.

... Captains would pick up some wine when they stopped in Cape Town and the winery was quite famous (it's mentioned in Jane Austin's books apparently). Noelline's other son, Jayson, took us around town, up to Signal Hill, and gave us a personally ...

... the seal charmer. Around 5pm we drove back up north to our B&B and got ready to go out with some mutual friends we had met in Austin a year or so back. They are now living in Cape Town. We had a very nice dinner at Eden on the Bay with some great ...

... the names. I also took the opportunity to have dessert at Hey Cupcake. Hey Cupcake is one of those unique Austin type places--- the location on South Congress is a silver airstream trailer with a large cupcake on top. They are located in a vacant lot ...

... some point I chatted with my old college roommate, Sarah, who said she thought they stayed in Ft Stockton @ Best Western while she was traveling through the South with AmeriCorps. She told me if there's a Sonic right down the road, it's the same ...

By Kate I'm typing this whilst speeding along I-10 through Western Texas at around 80 miles per hour; incredibly the rest areas in the State offer free wi-fi which is more impressive than our suite in Austin last night! Yesterday morning we awoke in sunny ...

... a Texan BBQ. Texas is known for it’s BBQ’s and great meat. When we arrived we saw a little, old country western looking place, with a flimsy wooden verandah and wondered briefly if we were in the right place. However as we got closer we saw ...

... and learn for themselves instead of word and mouth opinions from their friends.  We also visited Soweto (accronym for South Western Townships).  It is so big it is almost a city within J'burg.  The recent immigrants from Zimbabwe live ...

... live meager lives, but still very happy ones. South America has some of that too. But they seem much more infiltrated by western cultures and customs. In this sense they're like Belize. They try to live lives much like Western society, but they don't ...

... nbsp; So I go across the street to the Deen, wait in line, and get rejected at the door.  They only accept a Western Australia driver’s license or a passport.  I didn’t even bring my passport on this trip, since I’m ...

... touched down in Perth finally arrived. Very excited to have our first official overseas visitor! Another excuse to be a tourist in Western Australia with a mix of new and previously-tested places to check out.  Expect this blog entry then to contain ...

... largely down to a mess of corrupt and weak governments over the past 100 years or so, combined with a dollop of Western intervention and influence as Indochina was sandwiched between super powers of best intention who 'managed' the political situation and ...

... on the other end of the spectrum too. I am now an uncle to the most gorgeous little man I have seen since Mini me out of Austin Powers. He's name is Leo and Im so excited and pleased for my brother Mark and his wife Liz. Its such an amazing event in your ...

... , Richard Ford, John Updike, Norman Mailer and Michael Ondaatje nestled, among James Joyce, Herman Hesse, Emily Bronte and Jane Austin and Henry James.  As well,  you will find larger hard cover books on history, sociology and an anthropology ...

... a small thai restaurant for fried rice..mmmm but so expensive $11 AUS (5 quid) and I'm used to paying between 50p and 1.50 for it in Thailand.  It was good though and Vicky and I were the only western faces in their which is always a good ...

... ; I got a brief insight into the village next to the jungle lodge I stayed at in Peru but even there everyone was in western cloths, even if they lived in basic huts without running water.  I get the distinct impression they don’t really care ...

... largest outdoor and indoor waterparks, yet anyone who visits here will find a waterpark that suits them.  Since I was staying at the Best Western, it came with free tickets to the Chula Vista Indoor Waterpark.  As soon as I was checked in I was ...

... 1 -Monday, September 4 Detroit: International Jazz Festival Wednesday, September 6 Ann Arbor: Learning in Retirement Breakfast @ Best Western Hotel (11:15 am) UM Taping @ Kellogg Auditorium (2:30) Ann Arbor District Library Concert ...

... him with one, two or all three of the bullets, depending on which theory you believe. Very emotional and sad experience. Drove to Best Western hotel at the airport, passed the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on the way (the Reebok is bigger and better by miles !) ...

... Park in far west Texas on the Mexico border. We drove 6 hours to Fort Stockton, Texas, where we spent the night at a Best Western.  On the way, we stopped for dinner in Junction, Texas, at an absolute gem of a restaurant-- Isaacks.  As ...