Andy and I took a day off in Austin, "live music capital of the world", TX. We watched live music, of course... everything from Jazz to Flamenco guitar, to blues, to Indie rock. We ate Texas-style barbeque (read: beef brisket) at every opportunity, and in between toured the state capital building, walked the shores of Lady Bird Lake and shopped for groceries at Whole Foods' flagship store. We watched a colony of Mexican Freetail bats roosting beneath the Congress Avenue bridge head out for an evening of bug-hunting.
Austin a a very bike-friendly city: so much so that Whole Foods grocery store had a bicycle tune-up station! People frequent "pedal-cabs"(bicycle-driven rickshaws) instead of taxis.
Austin is a pretty big city, so there is always a lot going on... but we happened upon it during the lead-up to a big music/film/technology festival called South by Southwest. Hotel rooms were less than easy to come by with so many extra folks in town...
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