Finally left the bus a few miles north of downtown Austin, found a cab that
was waiting right there.
Went back, past downtown, to the car rentals at the
airport. We picked up a Dodge from National, from a very very very nice man
called Martin and headed back into downtown Austin. Parked up in South Congress and wondered around a tres cool shipping strip. Went into the famous Allens Boots store and had a
good old laugh at row upon row of rack upon rack of super decorated cowboy
boots, managed to avoid the temptation and settled for a Wrangler checked
shirt. tried and failed to get Ellie to buy a cowgirl Stetson hat and then we
went and got some lunch at Wahoos fish tacos. Staff in all the shops were
very welcoming & chatty and Austin
was pleasantly hot. A lovely conjunction of San Francisco
hipness and Melbourne's
space and summer heat - hot enough that we went to Zilker park and had a swim
in Barton Springs which is a natural spring fed pool with a mossy weedy bottom
with concrete edges and ladders etc. Ellie passed on the swim, and had a dozey
lie down in the shade. I dried off, and we went into downtown to Waterloo
records which was awesome - country music was mixed in with rock and indie just
the way God intended. We found a few back catalogue items and brand new
releases from Vince Gill and Shelby Lynne for our driving entertainment. We
stocked up at a vast Whole Foods store (the original) and headed into the sunset
south towards interstate 10.
2 hours drive to Schulenburg, to a pleasant but
unremarkable motel, halfway to Houston from Austin
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