So...my kids will be attending the University of Texas when they grow up. They just can't tell anyone they are from New Jersey cause it doesn't fly too well with some of the locals. Austin is awesommmmme though. The place to be is 6th St. They close the street on weekend nights because it gets so crazy. Most people there are very nice. Other's, like the guys we met whom were wearing tucked in flanel shirts with steel toe boots with those little spinning spurs on the back were a bit more difficult. Lets just put it this way...Ted had to pretend to be an ultra conservative republican so he didn't get us beat up because as they said it "A NJ republican just isn't the same as a Texas republican". Had the best BBQ we've ever eaten at Ruby's BBQ in Austin. Our car was towed out of the hotel parking lot so we had to go to a Texas Tow Truck company in the middle of nowhere to pick it up. It wouldn't have been all that bad had the man we spoke to had not been behind a glass window with reinforced steel bars and a dog chained up outside named Chopper.
28 days, 11 states, 6152 miles, 13 major cities, a speeding ticket, a parking ticket, a towed car, and 82 cheeseburgers later...we're now in Houston set to fly home tomorrow. We thought we'd share our perspective on a few of our favorites and least favorites on this trip.
Favorite City: San Francisco
**Note** Vegas was not included in this list due to unfair advantages it has over every other city
Most Boring City: Seattle (yet no rain while we were there)
Best Hotel: Parc 55 in San Francisco
Worst Hotel: Best Western in Carlsbad, NM (We were forced into this one as there wasn't anything for 100 miles)
Most Scenic State: Montana
Least Scenic: New Mexico. Aside from the paper aliens setup around town in Roswell.
Best Cheeseburger: In N' Out in Arizona.
Funniest Encounter: a 4.8ft tall 37yr old asian man named Larry in a college bar in Tucson, AZ who was drinking $1.50 Pabst Beers and kept re-iterating over and over how he hoped he wouldn't go to jail that night
Best new Beer: Shiner Bock sold all over Texas
Favorite Meal: Breakfast at Kono's surf cafe on the boardwalk in Pacific Beach San Diego
Worst Meal: Breakfast at Best Western in Carlsbad, NM. Fake eggs in the one of the largest dairy producing states in the U.S of A.
Scariest moment: At 7000 feet in Grand Teton, an unexpected snowstorm on an unfinished road. For Frank, the 3 times Ted almost accelerated the car right up another car's ass on the highway.
Most enlightened moment: Grand Canyon
Most Memorable Experience: The drive along Pacific Coast Highway. It doesn't get better than that...
