After checking out a few more of the sights in San Antonio, it was time to hit the road again, for the short drive north to the state capital.
One of the highlights (for visitors at least) in Austin is watching the nighttime show put on by 100,000’s of Bats, yep, Bats. Every evening between April and November at dusk, they leave their nesting area which just happens to be under the Congress avenue bridge, the main bridge in downtown Austin and head out to feed. It was very impressive, certainly a different type of tourist attraction.
We’re staying at the Austin Motel, it’s been here since the 1930’s and it’s not changed too much since then, it’s in the “trendy” part of Austin so there are plenty of bars and restaurants right outside the door, very handy.
For dinner yesterday evening, we opted for burgers (again), however, this place called Hopdoddy, is a multi award winning burger place, on a Tuesday evening at around 8:30pm, there was a Q (line in the US), going out the door and around the corner. Was it worth the 40 minute wait to get a table, yes, the burgers were really good, however the usual American style of fries, while better than most, were just ok, but the excellent cocktails, made it all worth the wait 🙂
After much discussion on our next move, we’re going to continue north to Fort Worth, which is about 30 miles west of a place called Dallas (you may have heard of it). We started this morning with a swim in the motel pool, even at 8:00am, it was a very nice 25C. Then we checked out a few of the quirky stores before stopping for breakfast to set us up for the 4 hour drive to Forth Worth.
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