Hotel San Jose Austin

... on free tickets is great, but two stops to get to Costa Rica seems like alot of stops. We parked our car at the Raddison Hotel in San Jose.  It was cheaper to park at the hotel than any other place.  We also had a place to stay for a couple of ...

... a spot and walked back to South Congress. This is that really cool couple of blocks that includes the Continental Club, Austin Motel, Uncommon Objects, Hotel San Jose and many other cool spots. Upon walking in the door of the Yard Dog Folk Art, the first ...

... the road. And with much floundering we finally found our way to the South Congress (SoCo) district of Austin, a neighbourhood with a seriously bohemian edge. The San Jose Hotel, or The Compound, as Laura and I like to call it, is a renovated motel now ...

... 5, only 4 remain and are part of the Missions National Park, of the 4, the best preserved and largest mission is the Mission San Jose, which is still in use today.  We toured Mission San Jose and it really was an esquisite piece of history, very ...

... scene out of Texas Chain Saw Massacre! Don't believe us. Go for a visit and you will know what we mean. Now we are heading for Austin, which is an hour away. We are in a hurry to get there, the sixteenth largest city in the U.S. We want to give ourselves ...

... to Zen said hello to Austin's wife Connie before going inside and enjoying sushi and noodle bowls before walking across the street to the San Jose Motel parking lot.   Billy Joe Shaver took the stage at Jo's Coffee at 8PM Billy Joe had a new band ...

... the morning was spent, much as the night before, lying around and using the old Remington typewriter to muse over the trivialities of life. It was difficult to leave the compound, we could definitely get used to the laid back casual luxury of ...

... happened). So a few of us broke off to return for a second night of Hotel Figueroa (fantastic, fantastic place-like Hotel San Jose in Austin, but on heroin). Mojitos all around (I broke my no-alcohol, no-coffee resolutions multiple times this trip; you ...

... him.  Once we got back we took more photos at a beautiful spot on top of a hill.  You could see all the way to San Jose and perhaps the ocean if it was clear.  Miranda rode with me for a few minutes at the top in the grass and she just ...

... spent one great day in the buzzing downtown of Mexico City before flying back to Costa Rica.      We arrived in San Jose at midnight and slept on the floor in the departures terminal until 6am. We didn't stay long in the ...

... indeed a lot of daily work but also a way to make a living. I wanted to buy some souvenirs and I went to the Mercado de San Jose, in the old part of the city. It is a completely different atmosphere than Boa Viagem, not only because of the buildings, many ...

... That´s about it for now, we´re just petting the hotel dogs and wiping the sweat off our brows in anticipation for a low key night in San Jose. But we all know that low key is a relative term. So we will see. . . Peace, Love and yada yada yada, ...

... last minute Twiggy costume was sensational, and my mom's 30+ year old mini-skirt certainly lent me the look of Felicity Shagwell from Austin Powers. And my favourite non-host was Hunter S Thompson. If you know of him at all, you wouldn't have mistaken ...

... in Portugal until she was ten and then moved to the States with her family. She now lives in Texas and used to work for UT-Austin. She even said her heart reached out to us after the shootings at Virginia Tech. She was amazing and even said if we were ...