AustinBlogs we like

  1. Video Edition: Dell Diamond

    Blog: Tales from Technomadia - 24 June 2009

    We got an e-mail from Bill Bivin, one of the moderators from Dell over at Digital Nomads, asking us if we would be interested in submitting a guest post about our Camp Nomadia theme camp at Burning Man. As we also happened to be in Austin at the time, we made arrangements to meet [...]

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  2. Video Edition: Rock Climbing in Austin, Texas

    Blog: Tales from Technomadia - 9 June 2009

    I grew up in South Austin, not too far from the Barton Creek Greenbelt. In fact, we could hike to it from our house. It was a wonderful place to grow up and be out in nature, but yet part of a progressive urban city. My brother still lives in Austin, so it’s a frequent destination [...]

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  3. Travelogue: Texas to St. Louis

    Blog: Tales from Technomadia - 1 June 2009

    Time period: April 24 – May 17, 2009 Miles Driven: 1593 After weeks of no firm plans and trusting in nomadic serendipity to guide our journey through Arizona and New Mexico, after Carlsbad Caverns we were back on route to our next planned destination – Austin, Texas. Austin is where Cherie grew up, and her brother now lives [...]

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  4. Campground Review: McKinney Falls State Park (near Austin, TX)

    Blog: Tales from Technomadia - 7 May 2009

    Cherie grew up in Austin, and her brother and his wife live there today. It is a cool town, and a place we will want to return to often in our travels. Camping near a major urban area is always a challenge, but in McKinney Falls State Park we have discovered a great place to [...]

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  5. Down at Del Rio

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 22 April 2009

    The Stranglers once said “No more heroes anymore”, they were wrong. Yesterday I trecked to the train station around 3 and a half miles away, in soaring temperatures (about 35•C), with a huge bag on my back and a fever all the while. I expect the Foreign Legion to be in contact shortly hoping to [...]

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  6. Blame it on the Tetons

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 22 April 2009

    Bonus post people. I don’t know what it is about the States, but this is the 2nd time I’ve had a ridiculously bad hangover which hasn’t hit until the afternoon. It’s murder. I just trundled down to the shop to pick up some supplies for the train (including some bourbon, never know when you might need some [...]

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  7. Lonely blue boy is my name

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 22 April 2009

    Alrighty there now folks, how the devil are ya? Me, I’ve got a hangover I have. ‘Lonely blue boy is my name’ was the title of a song I saw performed last night for the curious amongst y’all. I got some snuff from a garage yesterday, good stuff as well. I thought they only done it in [...]

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  8. Playing the old waiting game

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 21 April 2009

    Oh oh, I appear to have sunburn. My pale British skin does not know how to contend with 2 days of sunshine on the trot. The last time I had a tan was 14 years ago when I was in Tenerife as a lad of 12. On the walk home last night (another 3 miles, I [...]

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  9. Keep Austin weird

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 20 April 2009

    It was Sunday and not many buses were running so I couldn’t be arsed with the 3 mile walk into town last night. After a good night’s rest I awoke to completely perfect weather and happily walked into the city. If California is the sunshine state Texas must have run them pretty close for the right [...]

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  10. South by Southwest

    Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 19 April 2009

    Goodbye San Anton. A nice city that I shall return to one day. I’m at the Greyhound station again now. CHAOS!!! No one seems to know which direction you should be queuing in (there’s a door at either side of the rope) and as I was the first person here 2 lines seem to have sprouted [...]

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