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All Posts: Austin
One of the biggest surprises of the year Matt and I spent traveling with Tommy was the three months we spent in Austin, Texas. Neither of us had expected to like it there, but it ended up being one of our favorite stops. In fact, it was hard at the end to pack up Tommy’s [...]
As I’ve written before, Austin, Texas holds a very special place in my heart. We spent three lovely months there in 2004 and I would go back for a vacation (or a longer stay) in a heartbeat. I’ve been thinking a lot about Austin this weekend because several of my travel blogging friends including Pam [...]
Update: I won a goody bag! And it will have Angela’s book in it! Look here in the future for a review. Thanks Angela. The lovely and talented Angela over at Just Go! (check our her wonderful guidebook about Rome) is hosting a blogapalooza with the Halloween-appropriate theme of “What a strange trip it’s been.” [...]
Before I went to Austin I had what can only be described as a laundry list of Yankee prejudices. Texas was as remote to me as Mars and if you had asked me to picture the landscape, the only image I would have been able to provide was a desert of cacti and cliffs perhaps [...]
Netroots Nation is going on right now in one of my favorite places: Austin, Texas. When we were traveling for 13 months with Tommy, we spent three fabulous months there and almost didn’t leave. Was it the fact that they put queso on fried catfish? Or that there’s a miniature train called the Zilker Zephyr? [...]
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