Liberal Texas

After Grand Canyon was a tough bus trip ahead. Both of us had a real pain in both our legs and it was near impossible to sleep! When we finally arrived to Austin, TX we met up with our host in a pancake restaurant before going back to her place. Danielle was a great host and we got to experience the whole city in her presence. The first day we chilled out a couple of hours at her apartment just to wake up.. Then she took us out to one of the famous streets in Austin, Congress St. It was so hot outside and so humid too - it felt like you really had to struggle to walk through the air. We had lunch at a great and very crowded Mexican restaurant and going back out in the Texan heat was tough with our full stomaches. But we had a walk down Congress St and saw some funny shops, including a candy shop where they had chocolate covered bacon... Special, right. But after a while we had to go back home to get out of the heat and relax in the nice and chilly apartment. In the evening we had some gourmet hot dogs and then went out in the very lively downtown 6th St. There was bars everywhere with music pumping put of almost every single one of them, and there were people everywhee too. The street was closed for cars and instead filled up with people to the edge, most of them locals actually... And Danielle explained that this wasn't even as busy as it could get! We heard some cool blues music coming out of an Irish pub and they let us in without asking for ID's - awesome! We listened the whole concert and tried some very good Texas beers. The band was great and we ended up buying their cd on our way out. We were back at Danielle's around 3.30 am and went straight to bed after a great day.

Next morning we packed our stuff and went for lunch at a local greasy burger place! And then after a short, but great stay, we had our goodbyes with Danielle and went our separate ways. Before taking the bus we went to the Barton Springs - a closed area of the Colorado river that runs through Austin, where they keep the water clean and let you swim in it. We had a quick swim, nice and refreshing, and then made our ways to the Greyhound station for our Bus to New Orleans...

Once again we've had a great stay in another American city. Even though the stay was brief we got to suck in the great things about Austin. Some would say it's a weird city with too many things going on being the only democratic and liberal city in the very Republican state of Texas, but we would easily just compare it to the atmosphere back in Denmark - they pretty much let you do whatever you want to. And who can argue with that...