Tag Archive: About Austin

Experience Austin during the holidays

If you’ve never gotten to visit Austin over the holidays, it’s pretty awesome. With this video hopefully you’ll get a taste. Enjoy and happy holidays regardless of what time of the year it is!

Video of Austin in 1955

One of my friends shared this on FB – couldn’t help but share this 1955 “modern” video…

Can’t get no satisfaction?

Our fair city has been in the news quite a bit. According to many reputable publications we are a great place to live, retire, start a business, be single etc. We have won 1st and second place on all kinda great lists. It’s all true and they are right and sure, it makes me happy,…

Austin City Limits Festival – A new tradition?

Guess it’s time to call the ACL festival an Austin tradition. It’s been 10 years and it just keeps getting better and better. The festival just sold out (2 weeks in advance) with the exception of some 1 day passes. To give you an idea of what it’s like to be there… It’s estimated that…

Who cares if it’s 108 degrees this Saturday?

Cooling off in Central Austin can be a breeze with all the cool swimming holes we have. The most popular and notable is “Barton Springs” which can be found inside Zilker Park. Click here for a  Map Just like it sounds the water is fed by a spring. No matter how hot or cool it…

Austin #1 Boom Town

Forbes just gave us another great compliment. According to their research – out of 52 of the largest cities in the US Austin is the most likely to grow and prosper over the next decade. Check out the Forbes article

Now that we are all grown up, Texas sized Kudos for Austin!

Growing up, Austin was just a small town full of live music, hippies, college students and politics. It was a quiet, fun, laid back town.  I remember hearing the arguments about how to keep our town small. Mostly they were between the business people who wanted growth for our city and the hippies who wanted to preserve all our…

Drink and Ride on The Pub Crawler

Last Saturday my wife and I were lucky enough to celebrate one of our friends birthdays on a 2300 lb rolling bar that was powered by 15 beer guzzlers. Some peddled harder than others. It was a heavy push but a good time for sure. We had a lot of fun and  got to be…