Dining on the road home

Austin, TX

When I'm in Austin, I like to have migas for breakfast:

            

Beer for lunch:

          

 Bar-B-Q for dinner:

                          

                              
        
And these?

              
These I like to have as often as possible.  Careful.  They're addictive.

Rest stop on the road home

Onion Creek, Austin, TX


I really love Austin.  J & J are lucky.  They have all this a few blocks away from their front door:

        

        

Austin is beautiful, even in winter when the trees are bare.  The rest of the year all of this is alive, lush and green.  It's amazing.

                  

There's a cactus patch up the hill.  Great place to spend an afternoon if you have two energetic dogs in your company.

              

                

I always enjoy being here.  To me, Austin feels like the comfort of a familiar lover's bed.  Wish I could stay a little longer, but I've got to hit the road.  Stopping off in Houston to have lunch with a dear friend I haven't seen since August 2005.  Next stop, New Orleans.  There's a very important Superbowl party I have to get to.  A Black and Gold Superbowl party, to be exact.  The Saints are going to the Superbowl.  For the first time ever.  I may have mentioned it once or twice.  WHO DAT!!

Dining on the road home

Dripping Springs, TX

When you're in Texas, you know you have to stop for some...

              

And when you're in Dripping Springs, Texas, you have to make sure you stop for some Bar-B-Q here:

                            

I'd been driving all day.  It's a long road, the road through Texas.  I wasn't far from Austin, not at all, but it was pouring down rain and I was starving.  It was that weird time in the afternoon, between lunch and dinner, so I had the whole place to myself.

                                  

              
                      
I mean really.  What more do you need?

Actually, I would have preferred a Purple Haze.  But they only serve Anheuser-Busch products.  It's OK.  At least A-B makes that ZiegenBock stuff, which isn't half bad.  Brewed 'specially for Texas.  After seven hours in a car, a beer is a fucking beer, right?

                          

Chopped brisket.  Spicy sauce.  A reprieve from the rain and a cute waitress.  I like Dripping Springs.

The road home

Texas

Somewhere along Hwy 290

I didn't ask where they were getting the meat from.

              

Pissing off Texas

Saw this at the Saturday market in beautiful downtown Anchorage.

My favorite quote? "Alaska doesn't mess with Texas.  You shouldn't pick on someone less than half your size."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA