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One of the things I really wanted to show Sam when I took her to Austin for the 4th of July was the bats.  Austin has the largest urban population of Mexican free-tailed bats in the world; the boat tour guide said there were 800,000 bats this year!  They live under the Congress Avenue bridge [...]

A friend of mine, Sam, was in Houston from Canada for work right before the 4th of July. I took her with me when I headed to Austin for the holiday weekend. One of our stops was The Oasis, a restaurant built into the side of the limestone cliffs overlooking Lake Travis.  Sam, Sara, and [...]

When I went to Austin for the 4th of July, we stopped in at County Line BBQ on Lake Austin.  It’s fantastic BBQ and has a deck out on the lake where you can feed the turtles!  Below are a few that were especially friendly.  They were adorable!

Over Memorial Day, Em, Juliane, and I headed up to Nacogdoches to get Em and Juliane scuba certified.  We had some free time in the evenings, so one night we went out to my old stomping grounds, the Stephen F. Austin State University Observatory.  We got to use the 18-inch telescope (used by NASA to [...]

On the 4th of July, Sara, Emily, and I headed out to my family’s dock on Lake Austin in the afternoon.  In the evening, Sara was playing with the Austin Symphony Band at a park in Round Rock so we went and listened to the band and watched fireworks. It was a gorgeous day at [...]