Blogs from Austin, Texas, United States, North America - page 19

Arrived in Austin. Layla's Dad Gareth met me at the airport at 430pm. Been on the piss ever since, now 230am. Not sure how I can type. All good. night.... read more

I had a list of things to do for the month of October that were Halloween themed. I had to read Dracula and Frankenstein and watch all of the Universal Monster Movies and read several ghost story books such as the Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark Series. It was great fun! Sure made the month interesting. On that list (along with visiting a cemetery and doing Day of the Dead things) was going to go see the Bats leave the Congress Avenue Bridge. There is Three Best Ways To See The Bats: 1) Invent a flying bat backpack attachment to fly out with the bats in search for insect food. 2) Stand at the Congress Avenue Bridge and watch the bats flow out. 3) Take a Capital Cruise boat under the bridge to watch ... read more

My first Cali. trip was back in 2005. It didn't last too long though, after a few days of sitting around an L.A hostel, this young truck driver named Bill, whom was staying there as well, invited us to go with him him to Austin, TX. Austin, TX. After two days on the road we jumped out of Bill's truck to a blanket of dry overwhelming heat in the downtown of Austin, and then the mosquitoes attacked. Yup Texas is Known for it's annoying bugs and poisonous creatures. Austin is pretty much just a desert with a river running through it. The people there are complete health nuts, and as far as Texas goes it's the most liberal it gets. We walked around this town for 3 months and I have never seen so many ... read more

No, I wasn't abducted by aliens in June... I just got behind. It was pretty well impossible to find a reliable internet cafe in western Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan that wasn't packed out with 12-year-olds shooting each other online. Then I got back to Europe and things got a bit hectic. I will update retrospectively with the rest of the trip, but for now you can browse the photos on my Shutterfly site. I've now moved on to Austin, where I'll be spending a few months working out what to do with the rest of my life - cunningly I budgeted some savings for this instead of just sinking them all into the travelling.... read more

Just 3 weeks to go until we fly to Buenos Aires for our short, but thrilling (hopefully) adventure. We'll be there for 10 days, and since we're going all the way down there, we of course, have got to swing by Iguazu Falls for a couple of days. What do we want to get out of this trip? Well...mainly just to explore a new place...see what the culture and people are all about....and just get away! Planning for this has fallen on my shoulders as Shel ties up his master's degree. He's 'heads down' for another 2 weeks and then he's free! What will he do with his new found time? ...no worries, I have a long list of things to keep him busy ;-) So, as I plan for the trip, one of the big ... read more