Austin Summer

I needed a breath of change, she needed to see all the charm that Austin had to offer. So that's how we ended up in my truck last week, driving to the city with Joe Nichols blasting and coffee pounding in our veins.

Along the way we stopped and bought cowboy boots. Because no adventure is to be had without them. (Or in my case, another pair.) It was love at first sight with these beauties, dark leather square-toe's with lovely violet stitching. Heaven.

Afterwards we continued on and mostly spent the day wandering about in the beastily summer heat. Our journey ended on 6th street (as so often journeys to Austin end...) with lunch at Jackalope. Just like the sign says, it is some damn good food. I had a delicious garden burger with my beer and let me just say it was probably one of the better ones I have had since moving to Texas where the word "vegetarian" is often synonymous to "heathen".

Just down the way from Jackalope is a little shop of oddities, complete with it's very own museum of weird. Naturally we were obliged to check it out.

We didn't get a chance to hit up the vintage clothing shops as had been part of the original plan, mostly because when we finally found Cream's we discovered that they had moved. It was kind of disappointing but I did cheer up when I walked into a gas station and the cashier asked me if I was Brazilian. I laughed, slightly bewildered and said, "no, why?" And he replied because I looked like I was. Seeing as the most beautiful women in the world are from Brazil, I think I will take that as a compliment. It totally made my already radiant day that much better.

-N.