Hampton Inn Austin

... to offer’! We were on our way to Austin by 11:45am and a quick 1.5ish hour ride had us at out next hotel, The Hampton Inn and Suites Downtown by 1:30pm. With our room ready early we checked in, dumped bags and hit the streets. Good grief what heat! ...

... was fun to watch the anticipation of others. That night our hotel was packed, with people of all ages, shapes, sizes and interests.  Austin seems to be a city where people come for the weekend to hang out and get away. Day Three We took our bikes out ...

Arrived this afternoon in boiling hot Austin. Currently its 39 degrees, very hard to go outside for any long periods. When I arrived at the hotel I discovered  that I only had a $100 note and of course the taxi driver claimed he had no change. ...

... time to ride our bikes all the way to our event in Austin.  They drove us to the Jack and Adam's Bike Shop in Austin where James Balentine works.  James was our bike mechanic on Saturday and Sunday and has been the bike mechanic on all 12 LSCOL ...

This morning I woke up at about 9am and got the free continental breakfast. Was quite a good one, with bagels, cereals, fruit and eggs, but no white bread. I was certainly not going to stoop to the level of wholegrain, so I stuck with my fruit loops and ...

... mingling with the honorees and snacking on Texas size cookies we rode our bikes a couple miles to the hotel, which is a super nice Hampton Inn.  The hotel is not charging us for the rooms tonight. We only had about 45 minutes from the time we ...

... up and we proceeded to dinner near the airport at Longhorn Steak House. Then we spent the night in Palm Coast, Florida at the Hampton Inn (located just off I-95 at Exit 289 across from the Cracker Barrel Restaurant). The Inn was a good stop on our trip ...

... Spike National Historic Site (this was a hard earned stamp for Paul -- it is really in the middle of nowhere) Stay Over: Hampton Inn, Downtown Boise, Idaho Phrase of the Day: "Beware: Dust Storm Area" Actual road sign in Southern Idaho. We witnesses ...

... city with wealth, San Antonio is the most Tex-Mex (60% of the population have Hispanic heritage) showing Hispanic culture and Austin is the alternative Texas. Cattle ranching was the core of Texas' economy post Civil War, but when black gold spewed up ...

... nbsp; I think she is getting strep throat.  Will probably be at the doctor's office tomorrow.  Glad to be back in Austin.  Had dinner at Maudie's.  I was craving cheese enchiladas - sick of seafood!!  Ran into HEB for medicine and ...

... the Manhattan trip I rested one day at home in Houston and then used frequent flier miles to fly up to Helena.  Made a stops in Austin and Denver on the way there and only had to swing through Denver on the way back.  The next morning.  By ...