Blogs from Austin, Texas, United States, North America - page 9

Well, here we are. Saturday morning, September 10. I’ve been waiting for that day for weeks now. If we decided to visit the state of Texas in late summer for a specific non-football related reason, the specific timeframe for our road trip was all about this date: BYU at Texas, Cougars at Longhorns...yeah, this is college football. We still have a long way to go though (Literally speaking). Kick off is scheduled for 06:00 PM and Austin is 165 miles from Houston, roughly a 3 hours drive. I don’t mind, this should be fun... 3 hours on the road, perfect weather (i.e. hot and sunny), a nice car, good tunes on the radio, considering we’re tourist and not local, we decide to make the journey with the top down, after all, this is the reason why ... read more

This morning we lazed about the hostel and caught up on sleep (Alice must've slept for more that 12hrs). Not only relaxing, we also realised how cost effective this can be, since you don't have to buy breakfast if you're not awake to eat it. We then caught a bus to the rental car depot. This proved a ripe hunting ground for Alice's and my new competition: who can photograph the biggest fatty. Certainly some prime specimins on the bus. We certainly got our money's worth out of the rental car receptionist. Despite making him come into the car park and point out all the different buttons (it is a very flashy car) we still couldn't work out how to start the engine. Eventually Alice sheepishly went back to ask: turns out, you have to press ... read more

Hi Ho! So ich habs gestern schon mal versucht aber irgendwie hat mich mein Laptop verarscht und ich kann den Beitrag noch mal schreiben! Aber zum wesentlichen: Ich hatte eine 25 Stunden reise von München bis ins 9000 km(?) weit entfernte Austin/Texas. Ich bin um 1 Uhr nachts in Austin angekommen und es war immernoch 30 Grad warm... Am nächsten Tag wurde ich von freundlichen 45 Grad begrüßt und habe mich gefragt ob es überhaupt sowas wie Wind hier gibt! Naja... 10 Stunden nach der Landung saß ich schon in der ersten Vorlesung. Die Uni an sich ist einfach mal... GROß (-artig). Man kann sich locker verlaufen egal wo man hin will! Naja... ist auch nicht so schlimm, man kann einfach am Unieigenen Fun-Pool von der anstrengenden Suche nach dem Hörsaal entspannen. Man kann sich auch ... read more

Austin is the live music captial of the US and you are meant to be able to see/hear anything here. Wandered around the kitchy costume shops and vintage clothes shops in the SoCo district. One shop 'Allen Boots' was literally lined floor to ceiling with every kind of eccentric, attention-grabbing boot you could image. Unfortunately people were pretty touchy about taking pics of their merchandise. Also denim everything and anything encrusted with rhinestones and studs was out in full force. I picked up a pair of jeans which weighed a tonne. Later on I went to the Broken Spoke Texas honkytonk. Unfortunately it was an older crowd doing the two-step polka. No rockabilly here! Moved on to the Continental Club which had a 'Howling Wolf' tribute night which was amazing. The next day I checked out ... read more

We left home yesterday and headed north to Austin. (Yes, I know this is supposed to be an East Texas road trip.) As some of you may know, my birthday was Saturday. Sunday was the best time to get together to celebrate. We met at Joe’s duplex at 6:00 planning to drive to Matt’s El Rancho for dinner. Unbeknownst to me, the guys had made plans for Andy to bring his limo (Andy drives limousines in Austin) and take us all over to Matt’s. What a wonderful surprise and what a wonderful evening. More tomorrow!... read more