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Austin - Texas. Writing this at 11pm, trying to think back over what we've done these last two days!
Quite a bit. Awesome campground, got everything, showers clean for once - so I've had 4 in two days. Mr Sheen me. Booked my internal flights for Hawaii. But get this, you can't fly with Hawaii Airlines inless you have a US Credit Card and therefore a US address...thought this was just online, so phoned them and got told the exact same. So I put it bluntly to their customer service guy, "if you are not American then, you cannot fly". To which he answered, "yes". Unbelievable, just think of all that business they are loosing! Thankfully phoned their competitor, Aloha, booked over the phone no problem. Also got a top deal on a hire car, and avoided the young drivers surcharge, so got that down to less than 200 bucks for a weeks car hire on Big Island - real good news as this means I can get up both Mauna Kea and Mauna Lao, both over 13000 feet. Can drive up to the trail heads out in the wilderness. From sea level that's going to be some awesome views!!
Anyway - oops. Where are we? Oh yeh, Austin. *In Jamaican accent* ReggAE, maN.
This reggae club was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Also loving this guy too, one day I'll be this cool:
But it's not just this I love about Texas. It's also the gun counter in Walmart next to the produce, no kidding, and the bullet holes in the Welcome to Texas sign on the Interstate 10: (!)
Look at those bullet signs. Looks like in Texas everyone just pops off at the street furniture for a chuckle!
Earlier today (that was yesterday), we did tubing. Basically sat in rubber rings and cruised down 3 miles of the Cobal River 50 miles outside of Austin. Good fun, saw lots of turtles - never seen them in the wild so they were good to see. Then back to the campground via WHATABURGER, and ate a triple whata beef burger I can only describe as capable of knocking off 5 years of my life. Had a Whatatummy ever since.
Oh almost forgot, on the way to Austin, past through Roswell, New Mexico. Saw one alien:
Thought the best bit of the town though, was probably the museam and "Research Centre"!!! I'm still chuckling to myself now!
Anyway, off to Layfayette tomorrow, en route to the big one, New Orleans. So better get some kip.
Austin Photo album pictures same as Carlsbad album here:
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1 comment:
Hi andy, sounds wicked!! the pictures form all the desert and stuff looks fantastic and the pictures you got are funny! i like the monument finger and the one of you jumping into the canyon is wicked. (im pretty sure that wasnt a camera trick, you did actually base jump didnt you!) your gonna love new orleans, you can just walk around the french quarter all day seeing all the different shops and street entertainers - try check out the breakdancers on the riverfront. bourbon street is mad as im sure you know! def hit it in the evening. wow roswell look interseting too! i take it the town is just totally revolved round aliens! we are in florida panhandle at the mo heading for miami, are you going there? btw all the other places you are going look fantastic like laos vietnam fiji etc - jealous. hope the other lot aint driven you too mad yet
jasmes and katie
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