Our road trip so far

"Austin er jo heeelt Texas"

We've heard a lot of good things about Austin, but we didn't see much difference from other cities during daytime. The Capitol Hill was nice (it's the biggest in US) and the Hickory Street (a restaurant) had a nice outdoor seating area where we had lunch. In the evening we went out looking for shops. But where are they? Where do people buy their Vans shoes? We could not find out about that. But we did find a really cool costume shop, though. The only time I saw this much costumes was at Norsk Filmsenter at Jar in Oslo. You could actually go into this shop and buy your own Darth Vader suit, with a helmet and everything. Or Tom and Jerry. Or Snowhite. Or a rennaissanse man's suit. Everything! Well, we did not. Imagine going onto the plane with a huge Darth Vader helmet in your hand! Texas.

Austin is Texas. But we didn't see that until late on this Saturday evening. Suddenly the streets were filled by people partying! The police closed the streets, so all of Downtown really felt like a big outdoor festival. Crazy. It's the middle of January! And what's more crazy: It's January, and we got 70 degrees. This is summer for us.

We went into a couple of bars that did not play rap music (they're kind of hard to find), and had a few drinks. OK, maybe more than a few. Anyways, we met very much nice people, and had a good time here. Today we're heading for San Antonio. Look at the map under to see where that is, yep, it's just where the red line ends.