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Another view of the place. It should be obvious due to all the wood on the side of a cliff that no smoking is allowed.!

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Another sunset photo.

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More sunset.

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Still waiting for the sun to go down.

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From another spot in the place, more sculpture - of acrobats...

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"Keep Austin Weird" is a phrase seen around the city. Austin is definitely one of the strangeer (in a good way) cities in Texas. We joked afterwards that if we were forced at gunpoint to move to Texas, we'd choose Austin.

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Back at the RV park, a Star Trek pinball machine in the park's restaurant. This park, the Austin Lonestar RV Resort, had a free pancake breakfast every morning. Overall a really nice park.

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Inside the RV park. Clearly the nicest urban RV park we saw.

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Our truck and trailer in their little spot.

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Each spot was marked with a Texas-shaped sign. We're spot #29.

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When I'm in San Francisco I always have dinner at the Buca di Beppo restaurant, just down the road from the Moscone Center. Austin has one too, so we stopped in.

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The kitchen, which we were guided through on our way to our table.

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Buca's menu. This is a big change from what I'm used to - "Small" and "Large" size items. Buca is mainly a family-style restaurant, serving massive portions meant to be shared. When Herb and I go to the Buca in SF we order enough food meant for a dozen hungry people - that's half the fun. Now they offer "small" portions too, which I guess makes sense but makes the place a little less fun. We got the garlic bread (Mmmm!), a pizza, and perhaps one other item.

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Garlic looking into the kitchen.

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It is now the Fourth of July, so we searched for and found the biggest party in Austin, the local orchestra and fireworks in a very large park. After walking quite a distance we finally found the fun.

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People everywhere!

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Austin is not your typically Texas conservative town. Here's a member of the local Libertarian party handing out copies of the Declaration of Independence.

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A little girl's version of trailer life.

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Another Libertarian handing out the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution may have been on the back. There was nothing political on the page other than a link to their web site.