Austin is on the short list for Amazon’s HQ2. Things in common with Seattle: tech savvy workforce, clean and green dog-friendly city, health conscious populace, and new high rise offices and condos. Oh – and traffic. The traffic is as bad as Seattle.
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- Austin ranks #11 in US cities, now sporting a beautiful skyline.
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- Austin’s favorite son, Willie Nelson, the first performer for Austin City Limits in 1974.
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- Each evening at sunset, crowds gather on Congress Avenue to see millions of bats emerge from under the bridge.
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- Whole Foods in Austin, aka the mothership. That’s an entire wall of kombucha!
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- On the shores of Lady Bird Lake, blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughan is captured in bronze, with a playful shadow. Behind him is the new tallest building in Austin. Locals call it the “Jenga” building.
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- Still love to travel with this man!
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- Mickelthwait Craft Meat for that Texas BBQ fix.
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- How good are these ribs? Good enough for the Obamas to take on Air Force One.
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- That’s 1,254 bicycles behind us in Austin’s Museum Without Walls.
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- Austin is FUN above all! This is an outdoor bar with corn hole, tetherball and ping pong.
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- Part of the 6th street party scene, where they have more liquor licenses than Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
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- If only they’d had a drive up window.
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- Guinness Book of World Records says these are the largest cowboy boots in the world. Now kickin’ around in San Antonio.
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- Cruising along the river walk in San Antonio.
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- Beloved Texas Senator Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman Senator in Texas. She’s most famous for an eloquent opening statement during the impeachment hearing of Richard Nixon.
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