Yeeeeeh Haw Mother Fucker
My time in texas has been a rollercoaster in a sense. mainly by trying to think of a title for this. The options were, Heybey(hello goodbye) Texas, Texas Chained and Seen, and whatever I set it as.
Who knows what I picked, i'm writing this on and off.
And it had very little to do with being in texas. Where to start though, do we talk about inter personal relationships, world affairs, competitions?
Those all exists i'm sure. But NO, thats not what this shits about.
Downtown texas, are there a lot of cool things and people? yeah.. probably, what do you get? a picture of this, Giant fucking disco chicken.
Mardi Gras was also a thing up in galvistan and all the stuff that comes with that. 3 days down (or whatever they're called, plastic waste, meeting up with old friends, and covid galor were the main things. Instead of going into that, you get this shit: You get the amazing healing properties of using a rock as a knife... truly coming back to our roots of the stone age. disturbing clay models of Blackbeard (ODDLY ENOUGH, NO BEARD). And yknow, your average illegal alien in texas as described by the news.
Austin is known for its food, music, and general atmosphere. So naturally, I try to go out and experience it. Though I generally like to look for weird restaurants off the beaten path. What no one mentioned is that most restaurants in austin are holes in the wall. Occasionally they're shit holes in the wall, whereas some others are really good holes in the wall. Either way they sit, lie in wait, in unsuspecting strip malls.
That being said, when its not a hole in the wall, you get these assholes, litteraly stealing my god damn chips from under me while I try to read a book. But an actual recomendation would be the cosmic bar in austin, great place to work. options of food, coffee, and booze.
The other recomendatrion only feels appropriate as a fan of gas station food. Wawa still being the superier gas station, Shell ends up coming in second with their Rudy's BBQ restaurant. You get your food in crates and you buy smoked meat by the pound. Real legit and honestly one of the better places for BBQ for the price. shoutout to Tal for the recomendation.
All in all, i've gotta say though. It may be a bit poetic, but it was a book that had this exerpt from a book that says it all about Texas and articulate it way better than I could.
Another section that should probably be its own blog, and because of that, it won't be.
Today was the last day I can do the climbing competition(105 pts out of 375 pts, fuck yeah) and I think I found an uninteded side effect of this whole travel buisness. While in germany and prauge with Austin I realized that you really get used to living in a place after about 2 weeks. Your life becomes normalized, you figure out how to work, you start getting new routines, and life becomes... normal. by the 3-4 week mark though, you start properly settling in, making friends, bar buddies, and fighting off opposums with an umbrella. A place really starts to grow on you and get you a bit sad leaving, but we cant stop now, we must go deeper. To Denver we go.... later... in like a week or something.
Another hot take I think I'll take on texas is that anyone not in a city in texas, is probably just an amish person in disguise. After doing my normal exiurstions of going 2 hours outside of where I live to see what's out there. You got the same things as the amish. Furniture shops, bakeries, being a poser, etc. Now is my sample size small, maybe if you conside 3 or so people and 2 shops, as a small sample size, then yknow maybe. But we are people, and people generalize, so here we are, us, and the amish.
All in all, I met a bunch of really cool people. A lot of them were from the climbing gym Crux and some from random events. From there we went out climbing out doors. I'll only call out 1 person here because theyn took some awesome photos that i'll link, Stephen WHo? Stephen HU.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Oogi2pmzl9vtbdtUN2THhBVG0lcU8LHl
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_XOoRECyYKcS1EKW06cjh1cxBwcFnv
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1asMkRBDw-ePUZureUHZgKJlmC2ECF883
and then there's my shit
Here we sit, last day of texas and right at the end we throw in the most texan shit you can think of. Rodeo's.. Austin Rodeo was an experience, one where kids ride goats till they fall, men get run over by bulls, women crash into barrels, and PETA losing their god damn minds. Truly an experience. There is something to be said though of Austin being a music capitol, and in the end the only concert I went to was a country music concert. I lasted 40 minutes before I caved and left. Truly an all a Merican experience.
But hey, it was a quite an experience here in Austin, Texas. I enjoyed my time and slowly the city grew on me. so much so I might visit again at some point in spite of the hell hole that is the weather in this place. hopefully next time we dont need to deal with time zones. And yes, I am making it politcal here at the end.