Pictures from New Orleans. Buildings, Jazz fest, street performers, freaks, perverts, drinkers, drunks, food, beer, Bourbon st. , and Santa Claus on vacation.

Our favorite street performers in the French Quarter. Not the best....our favorite.

Spent the afternoon in San Antonio . Visited the Alamo. Stella peed on the grass out front and got yelled at by Mr. Ranger. We were later told by a local homeless guy that Stella was in good company. Ozzy Osborne peed there too and got arrested. No , there is no basement in the Alamo......we looked.

After two BBQ lunches Mary lapses into food delirium. Lockhart Texas

Lockhart Texas is the BBQ capitol of the world. There are 2 joints in town. Smitty's and Blacks. Both are very famous. Smitty's has an attitude ( no forks , no BBQ sauce, no credit, blah blah blah.... Blacks more friendly and outdoor seating. ( Amazingly few places have outdoor seating. To us Seattleites its great but to Texans its too hot to sit outside). So our dilema was where to eat.....so we ate at both. We liked Blacks best. Ate too much. ( see next blog entry). Note great picture of the old guy cook taking a break from the open fire pits. Hotter n hell!

Time to leave Austin. ( Mary has renamed it Awesome Texas) Austin is by far our favorite city so far. Lots of great stores, restaurants, art, music and so much more. Planning to come back in the fall .............to pick up the junk I bought.

The Broken Spoke is a classic honky tonk bar in Austin. Riding the scooters at night .......still hot out and no helmet law!

One of the tourist attractions in Austin is the bat swarm every dusk. One million bats live under the bridge and fly out at sunset to eat bugs.

94 degrees in Austin today.

We unloaded the scooters and toured around Austin. Lunch at an Airstream trailer that served crepes. Great hangover food.

Our first night in Austin. We met up with Damon and Glen. Our first stop was Emo's where we played punk rock bingo. It is your basic bingo except you throw stuff ( eggs, vegetables, cans, water or whatever you can find) , at the caller who sits behind chicken wire. We then proceeded to hit some more bars on 6th street and get drunk. I think it was the Jameson shots that took me over the edge.

After staying in some kind of stanky roadside motels, we decided to try priceline for our 2 nights in Austin. We got the newly remodeled four starr Hyatt for $60.00 / night. Check out the view from our room!