Texas: Part 7, Austin TX

We headed further south to Austin, TX. Austin is Texas’ state capital. We stayed at a Walmart just outside of town the night before we headed into the city. This night was one of the worst storms we had encountered so far. There was the craziest lightning, not mention thunder, and quarter size hail. We are not kidding you folks, QUARTER size hail! Let’s just say it was an adventure and we should have known that was not going to be the worst we were going to see. Joe and I had noticed that whole week we were driving through Texas we saw a lot of motorcycles, and not just one guys rolling down the highway, there we convoys of 4-5 bikes. Well it turns out that it there was a motorcycle rally in Austin that weekend we were there. So as we were walking through downtown Austin we saw a ton of bikes, most were your typical Harley or Indian, but then some were way out there or super tricked out. There were also a lot of bars, pubs, and live music venues. There were a few that had some pretty awesome names, we took some pictures of there décor. We walked from the famous 6th street to the capital, checking out some of the architecture along the way. As we got close to the capital we noticed the street right in front of the capital was blocked off. There were a bunch of workers setting up for a “evil kenevil” type stunt. A guy on a bike was going to jump two Budweiser semi trucks in a row! We didn’t have time to stay for the night to catch the show but I am sure it would have been pretty awesome. We caught a few good photos of the capital and then headed back to the truck and trailer, did I mentioned that Joe parked it downtown?!? He parallel parked it into two spots, we just put quarters in both meters! We had decided that we were about half way through our trip funds and that we were not going to be able to go any further east, so it was time to start heading north… we didn’t know at the time that we were going to be heading into the eye of the storm in almost every state we hit north of Texas…