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If you are bored and in Austin, go rent a canoe for an hour or two- either go out on Town Lake and see the city from an entirely new view point, go turtle hunting, or bring bread and feed the ducks (but watch out for the evil hissing swans of death!). When I go I usually eat dinner on the canoe with a friend and watch people jump off of the bridge by Barton Springs. It’s great exercise and it’s worth trying!

I don’t understand why everyone loves it, I’ve never had a good burger here. Maybe I just have deficient taste buds, but either way I didn’t find it all that special.

You have your Austin hippies, your ice cold water (which I strangely love), hot guys in flower print swim trunks, and if you’re lucky there’s the creepy men in thongs. If you’re a yoga freak there’s always someone doing yoga, and if you are weird and looking for other weird people, well you’ll find at least 10 other people just like you! If you are normal then go and people watch.

Just go, you’ll have a good time no matter who you are.

My father and I were going down to Mexico for a weekend just for fun. We lived in Arizona at the time and it was only a few hours to Puerto Penasco (rocky pt.). We got there and stayed at a terrible hotel where there was human feces in the water- no joke. We ate at a cruddy restaurant and when we went to drive away the car wouldn’t start. This isn’t too unusual, because in hot places car batteries just die out without warning, but we were in Mexico and we didn’t speak Spanish! Luckily the manager of the restaurant we ate at knew English and showed us a place where they charged us a lot of money for our battery.
Yet, through all of this, I would go back to Mexico again. I must be crazy.