Texas...

[TheMightyFavog]

You know I might not want to live there, but damn, it sure seems like a cool place to visit, especially Austin. Hell, the Barbecue alone would be worth a trip...

[Bunny]

1. It's also home of the hottest babe ever.

Yes it is. :loveya:

[KamaAina]

6. Sandra Bullock?

(owns a home outside Austin)

:P

Or did you have someone else in mind? :shrug:

[Haole Girl]

2. I'm going to get in early on this thread, before it turns ugly, and say...

this is the first (and probably only OP) outside of the Texas forum with anything positive to say about Texas.

:rofl:

Glad you're having a good time.

You do know Austin is not quite like the rest of Texas, right? ;-)

[TheMightyFavog]

4. Never been to Texas, actually.

I know about Austin. Someone lent me a book about Austin by Kinky Friedman, and it sounded like a very interesting place to go.

[trof]

3. All my exes live in Texas.

Well, not 'exes', but all my in-laws.
:-(

[yellowdogintexas]

5. Texas is much much nicer than its elected representatives

yeah, there are some crazy right wingers but all our big cities are neat, each in its own way.

We have great museums, theater, opera, ballet, public art, water holes, beaches, Mexican Food, barbecue,

and soon,, very very soon..


BLUEBONNETS.

[Skittles]

9. and people like you and me

:hi:

[texanwitch]

7. Bluebonnets are here by the bayou, not many yet.

[texanwitch]

8. And these.

[Richardo]

15. ...and the redbuds are in bloom:

...here's one in our front yard, via low-res cameraphone

[madinmaryland]

10. I'm stuck in Texas every other week for the next two months.

Fucking sucks.

San Antonio. There isn't jack shit to do.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. Go to the Marion Koogler McNay Museum.

It's a hidden jewel on the Northeast Side.

(I went to college in San Antonio -- Trinity University)

There are five or six universities -- they have concerts and talks and such.

[Deep13]

17. If it were me...

...I'd bring (or get one there) a telescope and enjoy the awesome stargazing.

[mcctatas]

11. Great, now I have a Texas earworm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5CXQGCxphU

[blogslut]

13. Here, this will cure that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMk208Op1Jc

[MrsBrady]

14. texas cookin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAtmhPUAg4U

[av8rdave]

16. Austin is great! Going to be there this weekend, visiting my son

Despite the political/religious climate, there are a lot of good people here.

[tango-tee]

18. Let's hear it for Southeast Texas / Louisiana border area...

Piney Woods. Delicious food, easy going pace, and that's where I lived when I first came to the United States in 1974. In retrospect, it could have been much worse, since my husband and I were the only interracial couple in town. I have many, many good memories.

[dawg]

19. I like San Antonio.

I'm a big enough history nerd to have enjoyed the Alamo, and I'm enough of a stupid tourist to have enjoyed all the tourist traps that surround it. I thought the river walk was neat and potentially kind of romantic.

I would've loved to have toured one of the intact missions I read about. And my boys loved the trip to Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels.