Last year my sister and I realized that we had never been on a trip together on our own.
That's lame.
So we spent a while (a long while) trying to figure out when we could match up our schedules and where we could meet up. Finally we found a weekend in January and set our eyes on Austin, Texas. The weather was a little iffy so we decided not to risk too many plans outdoors, here is the top 6 of what we were able to get to with the threat of rain and a little more than 48 hours:
- Congress Avenue Bridge, a huge bat colony lives there and you can watch them emerge at dusk. If you're there at the right time of the year. We, apparently, were not. We walked to the bridge and hung out for a while eventually concluding there was a track playing to make it sound like bats were still there. We stood in a park with a nice view and had a giggly time anyway.
- On South Congress is a shop named Parts and Labour. It is filled with clothes and gifts all made by local designers and artists.
- Güeros, also on South Congress, probably has good food but we just got a beer and sat in the outside area to listen to some local music before a storm rolled in.
- Gourdoughs is a donut truck. Huge creative delicious donuts.
- We wandered a bit up and down 6th street and had a good time just seeing what we could see.
- Salty Sow, a tasty dinner after wandering around downtown, then we headed to a secret bar so I'll have to leave that off the list.
It is a large city with a lot of outdoor options that we will have to go back for, and a lot of breweries that we didn't plan well enough to get to. We realized that never having gone on our own adventure we didn't know how much or little the other liked to plan when traveling. Next time, particularly if the trip is as short, we will organize a little better. But we still saw things, ate well and had fun just being around each other. What else is there to do?