Oh Austin
Yeah baby! OK, not Austin Powers, Austin the city. Today I spent my first full day here and went off exploring. After quite some trouble adopting the local time zone—I got about five hours sleep from 5am to 10am—I didn’t feel too bad. Then I walked outside the hotel, bugger me it was hot. And humid. I was sweating like a pig all day.
First activity was wandering up to the State Capitol building. Then I walk around some other parts of the historic downtown area. Then I walked up to the Texas State History Museum. It was great to get a bit of a history tour about a place you’re visiting…and the place was well air-conditioned! They also had a temporary exhibition on the history of NASA and the part Texas played in it. Whilst in the cafe having a quick lunch I was listening to the soundtrack of country rock, and then all of a sudden the Top Gear theme was playing. So either they used a country rock song and reworked it, or somebody did a country rock cover of the Top Gear music.
Then it was off to the nearest (although I don’t think ‘near’ is the best word for it) Gap store to buy stuff for Jenn. Then it was back on the bus to go downtown. I was going to go check out the Town Lake and maybe see the bats, but my feet were sore so I just went back to the hotel. On the way I checked out a few souvenir shops, but I wasn’t very impressed. Hope I find some better stuff somewhere.
Time for dinner (unlike last night where I ate too late) so I went to one of the establishments in the hotel. Texas beefsteak sandwich is real nice. And so are Texas people. But I could never live here, I would explode from all the food!
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Patrick Kennedy is a user experience strategist and design researcher based in Sydney Australia. He leads research activities that improve the user experience of cross-channel products and services; helping both designers and business decision makers in bringing those products and services to fruition. Read more.
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