Austin is lovely, and MUCH bigger than I thought it was. It's really too bad that I can't stay any longer. There are too many great smelling restaurants here for me to sample this trip, so I'm expecting to visit again some other time.
Yesterday was rather uneventful, although we did discover a beautiful area of Texas that we otherwise would have missed. Outside Abilene, I missed the highway turnoff by mistake., Upon checking the map, I realized that the next town was Baird, TX. Since my maternal grandparents were Bairds, I thought I'd visit and catch up with my highway later. I was completely blown away by the llandscape just south of Baird. It was so beautiful, and completely unlike anything I'd ever seen before. It felt like the Big Sky Country of the Northern Plains, but there were cacti growing like crazy. Sort of a Montana meets Mexico-type of place. I bet I could live there happily.
Today I'm uing WebTV to post this log, and it's very frustrating. So far this trip, I've come in contact with WIFI, DSL, LAN, dial-up, and now Web TV, and I've had problems with all of them. I think it's time the industry decided on a standard--or better yet, each motel or campgrouind should have a computer already hooked up for guests to use. Those types of "business centers" are the only places I haven't had trouble accessing the Internet. Who do I call about this subject?
Today I head into new territory, and get to add a new state to my list of where I've been. The Big Easy awaits for me, and hopefully today I get to find out why New Orleans is called that.
Read the post from October 17 (Orange, Texas to Red Stick)
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