Austin, TX
Keep Austin Weird
You gotta love a town with that as an unofficial motto.
In beautiful country, Austin is the most beautiful town I’ve seen. In a lot of ways it reminds me of Nashville in an infinitely more walkable way.
Since it’s walkable, I walked today. Feels good to get out of the car and get the pavement under your feet. Besides, I’m getting fat. Too much sitting on my arse in the damned car and drinking beer every night.
So I walked down Congress St and across the bridge. Down 6th Street past all the bars trying to recover from last night’s revelry. Up into the ghetto to pay my respects at the Texas State Cemetery and grin at the huge numbers of dead Confederates buried on the sylvan slopes. Back down into town to wander through the State Capitol and then back to SoCo to my hipster place of rest.
In the evening I wandered back down to the bridge to watch the bats come out. Sadly I am told it was a bad bat night. I’m almost glad it was a bad night, with the quantity of the little buggers I saw flitting in the shadows just beyond my face I’m not sure I’d want to be around on a good night.