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Got guns?

Like I said... they like their hunting.

Wherever there's an American flag, there's a Texas flag as well (almost without fail). The same cannot be said vice versa.

downtown Austin, on one of the rare cloudy days we've had plenty of this week.

Wendys

Wendy's, Austin-style: Bevo Spicy Chicken

(if you somehow don't know this, Bevo is the Longhorn aka the mascot for UT at Austin)

Today is Texas Tech at Texas. As always, people have been tailgating since dawn. They also waited in line ALL DAY Friday to get tailgating spots on campus (faculty members can get them and there are plenty that are off-campus but its tough to get the good ones nearby the enormous stadium).

The game starts in 34 minutes and if we somehow lose (see 2008), well, I may not leave my apartment tomorrow. Or maybe I will, since everyone will probably be too depressed (and/or hungover) to leave their houses.

Texadelphia

Texadelphia is a chain restaurant down this way. I haven't actually been there but I remember being amused by its name last year...

Longhorn sticker

Antler hanger

I'm not entirely sure but it looks like some sort of clothing/item holder made of antlers.... they do like their huntin' down here & its just about that season again...

Pepper Sauce

Flag or uni?

An up-close shot of one of the Texas rowing clubs uniforms....

Shoulda...

Dillossum

It reads: Armadillo... Possum on the Half-Shell

Cowboy Cookin'

Seen in a shop in Fredericksburg

Row v Wake

 Like the name?

Row V. Wake... get it? (I hope)

Fire? Uh oh.

Also on our way to Canada... check out Cassoday's fire station & fire engine. Yep.

Oh Kansas...

Warning: Hot.

Exit here

On the drive to Canada (25hrs if you go straight through which, rest assured, we did not), the car I was in encountered some interesting things....

like this. Cassoday, Kansas: Prairie Chicken Capital of the World.

Now, what exactly is a prairie chicken? We didn't know either. Then we found one.

Our route included: Texas-Oklahoma-Kansas-Missouri-Iowa-Illinois-Indiana-Michigan-Canada! It was a little, oh, not exactly direct because we stopped in 2 places to see friends.

Cowboy hat

In case that's illegible, it has a bull kicking & says "8 SECONDS TO KICK YOUR ASS". 

Bat Boat!

Since Bat Fest is going on,  thought this image would be appropriate: it's a boat with a covering that is bat-shaped. It takes people out to watch the bats fly out from under Congress Ave just after sunset.

Orange plant

In Canada!

In Canada!

Interesting Cleaner

I don't invent these things, I just take photos of them...

Beetlejuice

Bright beetle-y bugs.... in the Texas Memorial Museum...

Twinkie, Fried.

A poor quality photo of a... well... Fried Twinkie. With chocolate sauce on top. Yeah.

Town Lake

Sonic, mmmm

Please note in the bottom left: OCEAN WATER. ???

Lonestar Highway, p. 2

See the little tiny Texas outline with the flag?

Once again, never waste an opportunity to remind the world you are in Texas, even if it is only on the interstate.

Ball of pennies = art?

A bizarre statue sculpture thing on campus. It has pennies pressed into it. Art confuses me sometimes....

Haribo + Heat = ....

Not exactly Texas-related but here's a tip: don't leave an open 3lb bag of Haribo gummy bears on the rear dashboard in 90+ degree heat...

More of Town Lake, down to the west from the boathouse...

Lonestar on the Highway, p. 1

Never miss an opportunity to decorate with a lonestar... even if it's a pillar holding up the interstate.

(Not a great photo but inside that circle on the pillar is a lonestar)

Cacti are funny

These cacti made me laugh.

Lonestar option for your trailer hitch.

Other options include Longhorns, UT, Aggies, a state flag....

Rowing one evening on Town Lake

 (again, I aim to not have people - at least not recognizably- in these photos so it's kinda limited....)

Weiner Time

Yeah, juvenile but amusing nonetheless: that billboard says"It's Weiner Time!"

State Flag Bench

Seriously, this state flag is everywhere. It's on so many objects. Like this bench.

Bat Boats

Evening cruise heading out to watch the bats fly out from Congress Ave Bridge

Graffiti

Bridge graffiti (not quite the same as the Charles' with its graffiti from the various teams....)

Texas Hall of Wildlife

So the Texas Memorial Museum, home of the Natural Science Exhibit turns out to be an enormous tease. It's a big, impressive building on campus that I walk by all the time. You go in it, however, and wtf? There's no real animal life except for pinned butterflies (and clearly that's not life). There are some cool rocks, a dinosaur skeleton suspended from the ceiling, and some shiny bugs on display. So you think "Oh! Hall of Texas Wildlife! Sweet!" and head upstairs.

Lies! I tell you, its all lies. There are replicas of animals but no real ones. Not even any stuffed ones! 

The rocks turned out be the coolest thing in there.

Palmypalms

4th of July Cupcakes

I half expected to be chastised for not creating a Texas flag out of cupcakes....

Fireworks

Fireworks over Town Lake on the 4th of July (we got there literally 2 mins before they ended. Thanks traffic!)

Tower

Oh hey tower.

Man that was a gray day. Rare.