We first visited Austin in 2005 and considered moving here then. We took a minor detour to Seattle for three years before finally landing in Austin in 2008. But in those two years, and from afar for three years prior, I’ve seen Austin building momentum as a city. I feel like I’m around people every [...]
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If there is one thing I’ve had no complaints about in Austin, it has been the options available for coffee shops to work from. Last fall, I blogged about my five favorite coffee shops and I made a trip on Gowalla of all my favorite independent coffee shops. A few weeks ago, a new shop [...]
Yesterday, our family stumbled on Pedernales Falls State Park. We spent a long weekend at a dude ranch outside of Banderas where I performed a wedding. I decided to take the scenic route home, and noticed that the route I was taking was going to pass right by the park. The name was familiar from [...]
Since I spend most mornings working from a coffee shop, I think it’s high time I shared my five favorite places to work from in Austin. (I know many have been on the edge of their seat waiting for this.) The main criteria to evaluate these coffee shops: convenience, work environment, and, of course, the [...]
I will neither confirm nor deny that the main reason we moved to Austin was the possibility of seeing more shows by Explosions in the Sky. I will say this…it didn’t hurt the decision making process! So, when I discovered they were playing their first announced show since we’ve moved to town, I made sure [...]
Last weekend, we took our family to the annual Chuy’s Children Giving to Children Christmas Parade. Let me begin with the most important detail. The parade didn’t start until 11am. Whoever planned the time must know how hard it is to get several small children out of the house in the morning. The start time [...]
Barton Springs Pool is in Zilker Park, just across the lake from downtown. It is a popular place to hang out and swim in Austin. It has some nice grassy areas to bask in the sun and some good play areas for young children to splash. The diving board in the middle seemed to be [...]
I promise this isn’t going to become an Austin coffee blog. But, please understand that coffee is the fuel that will help keep this blog going. Without it, there might not be any content! So, the coffee tour continues… One of the best lattes I have found in Austin comes from Caffe Medici. I’m not [...]
As I’m trying out local coffee shops, a few favorites are starting to emerge. One of those is Sodade Coffee House, near Duval and MoPac. I’ve been spending as much time at Sodade as anywhere else because they score high in my primary criteria — they make one of the best (and cheapest) lattes I’ve [...]
I spend 3-4 mornings a week working in a coffee house, so I am making the rounds in Austin to see what’s out there. I’ve been to several, but have held off from posting about any of them until I’ve had 2-3 visits. Coming from Seattle, I was spoiled as far as coffee goes, but [...]
One of my new Austin friends took me to lunch at Austin Diner this week. On first glance, it looked like, well, a diner. After a while, I realized it was a diner with some contemporary Austin feel. I wasn’t forced to relive decades past with oldies that I tired of long ago. The music [...]
After about a week of unpacking, our family needed to get out and unravel a bit. We met up with some new friends for live music, a playground, and some ice cream on a Saturday evening at Central Market on North Lamar. It was almost perfect…a weak iced latte was the only damper on the [...]
Last week, I met another friend for lunch who had also just moved to Austin. We had planned to meet at Mighty Fine Burgers which has been recommended to me several times but it had a long line and no space to sit. (This was the second time I’ve tried Mighty Fine…one of these days [...]
On our first weekend in town, we were ready to get our whole family out for a relaxing evening after the stresses of moving. We met some friends for dinner at Chipotle and then headed over to The Domain. Part of our motivation was to give our little ones some idea of consistency. Our family [...]
