Days 22-25 Austin and San Antonio

Days 22-25
Dallas(Allen), TX> Austin, TX for 4 days with a day in San Antonio

    So after a relaxing two days at the home of the wonderful Texas Leven House, we set off to Austin. However, before leaving the city we stopped at a Goodyear to see if the air conditioning could be fixed. As explained in the last post we attempted to fix the air conditioning by pumping more Freon into it ourselves… which backfired. So this time we sucked it up and went to a professional. Well long story short they came back with an estimate for 1400 dollars…. So we said thanks anyway and went to Austin a little astonished and still very sweaty.
    We arrived in Austin a few hours later (which happens to be in Travis county). We had contacted a friend, Brandon Greenspan, at the University of Texas, which is is right in the city of Austin. Brandon is a member of AEPi at Texas and let us stay in his room at their fraternity house. Now fraternity life is something John and Travis already know a little bit about from their days spent conquering Penn State, so they felt right at home.
    The second day was spent mostly at a local auto mechanic in Austin. We did a little research and found that this place was good and went in for a second opinion crossing our fingers that they were not going to come back with a 1400 estimate as well. A few hours later we had the estimate for 700 in hand completely understanding what was wrong and agreed to pay the price to fix it. Another couple hours later the car was fixed and the vents were blowing out air as refreshing as well…. Air conditioning in the desert. We went out that night to 6th street, which is the large strip of bars which is primarily filled with people in their young 20s and is the “happening” place in town. That was fun and because of that experience Brandon convinced us to stay a fourth night which was not the original plan.
    Day three in Austin was a great day as well. We began by driving to Salt Lick BBQ just south of Austin which is a jaw-dropping… uncontrollably salivating…. Mindnumbingly good…. ALL YOU CAN EAT… BBQ extravaganza. Well after our tummies were filled to our delight we drove another hour and a half to San Antonio. Well as some you people who have learned some US history may know San Antonio is the city built around the Alamo. So we checked out the Alamo which was a lot cooler than expected. It was pretty much an old fort building but there were many cool exhibits from the many years of the Alamo’s existence. Our loyal readers may be interested to know that famous American heroes including Davey Crocket, Jim Bowie, and William Barrett Travis dies in their efforts at the Battle of the Alamo.

After checking out this historical mecca, we walked around the San Antonio “Riverwalk” which consists of a series of trendy restaurants built along a controlled canal throughout the city. Once finished exploring the main attractions of San Antonio, we drove back to Austin and spent the night at the AEPi house.

Our last full day in Austin was spent checking out the city itself. Brandon showed us the highest point in the city, South Congress Street, and finally the Texas State Capitol.

All which were fairly interesting spots especially the capitol. Of course on our last night in the city we spent out on 6th street again and it was the best drinking night of the trip. The bars were full and we had a fantastic time. Certainly a huge thank you goes out to Brandon and all of his brothers that showed us such a fantastic time in Austin. Don't Mess With Texas!  
Hook 'Em Horns!!!