MON APRIL 29-- Austin: the land of tattooed cool-kids, food-trucks, BBQ and boot stores. The land of neon signs and Excellent Tacos. The land of Hippie-Texans and Honky Tonk Bars. Whole Foods, Bats, Barton Springs. We’ve taken 8 whole days here to take in culture, coffee, food and social life after a long stretch of rural roads and campgrounds. We ended up riding almost 30 miles a day just around town finding spots to check out, doing errands and seeking the elusive cup of tasty coffee. We’ve been drinking cheap stuff on the road, and though we brought a French press—you can really taste the difference between the freshly roasted, freshly ground, shade-grown, fair-trade organic stuff and Maxwell House. It’s our last day here before we head west through the Hill Country. Barton Springs was great, and we got to see the bats fly out from under the bridge downtown too. It’s pretty amazing to see a plume of 1.5 million bats fly out for their nightly mosquito feasting. There was so much to do we thought we might never leave. Sad to leave but happy to get out on the road again.
