W and B in the lobby of the Driskill - see below for more explanation
Devin resting in the lobby of the Driskill - see the next photo for more explanation.
The Driskill Hotel is an old historic hotel downtown and is very lavish - not my taste - but one can appreciate it's beauty. This is the enormous stained glass lighting at the base of the steps to the upper floors. There would not have been elevators when it was built of course, and this was certainly a beautiful start up the grand staircase.
What can I say? BBQ is huge down here . . . that history of ranching . . . after we ate here one afternoon and had delicious tenderloin and ribs, we just ate flatbread that night, we were SO "heavy" from lunch.
The Austin area is more "Ohio-like" because is has lakes, hills and trees - seems more "familiar". We went to Lake Travis which is a man-made dam and recreation area. The shore is very, very rocky, not sandy at all. The kids swam and we waded.
This is where W is now living since the 60 day company-paying-for-housing has run out . . . he is very near a train track, unfortunately, which is noisy but also lets us know to avoid the area for housing . .
