Day 1 in Austin

We woke early, keen to beat Jez to the bathroom.
The day was shaping up to be a long trip across the flats of western Texas 420 miles in total. We where on the road by at 8:30 am and made our first of four fuel stops for the day. We stopped at IHOP (International House of Pancakes) for an early lunch late breakfast. Our second stop for the day was Sonora caverns where we hoped to have a tour of the caves. Unfortunetly the tour was going to take the best part of two hours. Being pushed for time we where force to pass.
Back on the road we started the first of many on road games. The first was the Disney number plate game for instance; 368 DGE – the Devil Goes to Everest – “He’s not such a bad guy” (All movie titles require a advertising tag line). But our favourite game was our own creation, “Real Talk”. Named after the popular catch phase of Tuscon frat boys, “Jez was that you, what have you been eating, real talk”. The game involved telling each other something that the other three will not know. For instance everyone know knows the refractionary temperatures of crude oil, and that turtles can breath through there anus under water.
Our most anticipated stop of the day was at the famous Texas BBQ house “Salt Lick”, for an early dinner. We chowed down on beef brisket, texas sausage, marinated ribs, homestyle BBQ sauce, pickles, onion, vinegrette coleslaw, and mustard potato salad (take a moment to wipe the drawl up).
We finished our drive into Auston and after perusing the main strip booked into our hotel. After a few quiet beers we caught a cab into 6th street Auston. 6th street is 4 blocks of wall to wall pubs interrupted only occasionally by all night pizza slice shops. Auston is the music capitol of the south and most bars feature live music in addition to $2 beers and $1 shots. At 10pm every night the streets for 4 blocks are blocked off and the party spills from the bars into the streets. The night was awesome! Auston is awesome we plan to spend the next month here.

Just a quick note; we have been listening to a lot of country music over here and below is a link to our favourite song, Watching you by Rodney Atkins.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=oqYUns2YQik

Later Nick