Tag: texas
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Our trip to Wimberley, Texas
Today we felt like day trippin’ so I got out our central Texas guide book and picked a destination: Wimberley. This town of ~5,000 is about an hour south of Austin and is made up of an interesting mix of artists and ranchers. We had no idea what to expect but were pleasantly surprised by…
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The Lights of Johnson City
The day after Christmas, the whole multi-generational family made the trek out to Fredericksburg, a little slice of Deutschland in the middle of the Lone Star state, for some yummy beer and schnitzel. We had a great time, particularly with the 80 degree weather, but the real sights appeared on the way home. As we…
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Happy Thanksgiving from Austin, TX
When our kids get older, we’re looking forward to having traditional Thanksgiving dinners like we remember. At this point, however, given their attention span and energy (one being short, the other seemingly infinite) we decided to go out to a family friendly restaurant that comes with an outdoor area for the kids to romp around…
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Splitting the Cloud in Three
Last week I attended the Rackspace Customer Event (Lombardi Blueprint is hosted at Rackspace) down on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. It was a great event and I sat in on some cool talks as well as grabbed some time with several of the Rackspace execs. Later this week and/or early next week I will…
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Goats in the Trees
On Saturday we took the kids to the Sweet Berry Farm pumpkin patch in Marble Falls, about an hour outside of Austin. When we checked out the petting zoo we were quite surprised to find the goats hanging out in the trees. I thought I’d share this rare glimpse of the species goatis-tree-dwellis. This guy…