Texas Part II

I had never been to Texas before, it was very interesting. I went to three cities when I was there, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. In Texas they think they are the greatest and that they have, as a state, done nothing wrong. There is nothing wrong with this it is just funny. The people in Texas actually are some of the nicest people I have met.

In Texas it is no problem for anyone and everyone to own or buy a gun. This is kind of creepy, the fact that someone could have a gun at any given time and most likely does. It makes you not pick fights, not that I do that anyway.

They say they do everything bigger and better in Texas there fore when you get a hotdogs it is a foot long and a half a pound of meat. Or instead of an Expedition SUV which is huge to begin with they have a Texas sized Expedition, AKA a mini bus. They do love there trucks in Texas, white pickups in particular, and these are also huge. When thinking of a normal truck it is usually a F150 or 250, not in Texas though they ride in F450 and 550 which are bigger than any truck I have ever seen, the thing seats 7. That is a minivan with a truck bed attached to it, the thing is fricken huge.

In Texas they are also obsessed with the shape of there state and the Texas star. Anywhere it is possible to have one or the other, there it is. Every beer can, every road sign, on the highway walls, and flags everywhere. It is actually quite funny.

San Antonio though was very cool and was probably the best of the cities I went to. I got to see a Spurs game, they won, but the reason San Antonio was so cool is the way there city is set up. The whole city is on a little river, literally on the river. The shrine, the Alamo, is the center of the city. You walk down from the Alamo and there is a whole city down below literally on the river. Instead of a street separating the stores and restaurants its the river, it was very cool.

Houston and Austin were also very fun. All of Texas had great food. There Tex mex, the steaks the Mexican food, it was all amazing. In Houston we went to a small little Spanish restaurant right near Minute Maid Field called Irmas. At the restaurant they did not have menus they just brought us out a plate with all sorts of different spreads it was delicious. They also had a house lemonade that might have been the best lemonade I have ever had.

Another restaurant we went to was called Saltlick and it was just outside of Austin, or so we thought, in a town called Driftwood (nowhere near water). The food here was also excellent they had a deal where you get three servings of meat, (steak, ribs and sausage), also mash potatoes and colslaw. This was enough food for any one person but since we were in Texas the food was all you can eat, I had trouble finishing the one plate. The best thing about this place was the BYOB.

Overall I liked Texas a lot and suggest giving it a try. The temp though I hear gets to be 100 degrees in the summer with 100% humidity so go in the winter when it is 70.