San Antonio or Austin (~3 days)

[MrPickins]

Salt Lick > Rudy's!

I was going to post this...

If you get a chance, hit up the Round Rock location in front of the Dell Diamond.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Salt Lick > Rudy's!

Go to Llano or Lockhart if you want REALLY good BBQ, or Elgin if sausage is more your thing.

 

[Crusty]

Go to Llano or Lockhart if you want REALLY good BBQ, or Elgin if sausage is more your thing.

For Coopers? Their pork chops and pork ribs are amazing! One of these days I'm going to make to Snow's to get some brisket, a couple of friends went not too long ago and said it was well worth the early morning trip.

 

[krylon]

Texas sucks

/thread

 

[fatpat268]

Oh you'll be near Fredricksburg, pretty neat little town. Antique shops, book stores, brew pubs (lots of German settlers went there), and a naval history museum (it's Nimitz's home town), winery or two in the area and lots of B&Bs.

If you like hiking, there's the Enchanted rock that's a couple miles north of fredericksburg.

I love that area. I haven't been nearby Fredericksburg in probably 10yrs or so, I'd love to go back.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Texas sucks

/thread

Shut your whore mouth. Men are talking here.

 

[thepd7]

Not sure how one can hate Austin. Liberal, maybe, but pretentious? How can the atmosphere be pretentious from a city that prides itself on being "weird"?

There are a lot of pretentious people here. Even pretentious about being weird, as in "we're better than you because we're different".

What he said - the domain is up in outer suburbia, you'll like it for about a half a day then need to drive (a long way) anywhere else.

I'd say one of the downtown hotels. You can walk to tons of bars, restaurants, the capitol, up to campus if you don't mind a long walk.

"a long way"? It's 20 minutes from the Domain to Zilker. Outer suburbia is Cedar Park or Round Rock, the Domain is still in city limits.

So thats where Rudy's Rub comes from. I am given a canister of it almost yearly.

edit - aww you made me think it was near where I am going. I get dragged to the damn state regularly, usually dallas and midland though.

Oh well, I'll still wind up with some brisket at some point.


edit 2 - I don't know how to use the intertubes, There is a Rudys in SA, I just looked at the Now Open box on the shop page on their site. Who would have thought to click on locations?

There's a Rudy's north of Dallas (Denton) as well, it's about 40 minutes from the airport.



BTW OP Aloft hotel in the domain is nice, our company houses interview candidates there.

 

[superccs]

Chill at the taco house on lake Travis, go see a show at the amplitheatre play frizbee golf with the hippies, there's a nude beach somewhere on the river in Austin. San Antonio takes like 30 minutes to see, and then wtf?

 

[superccs]

Texas sucks

/thread

Yep. I am so thankful that most Texans stay in Texas.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Well being a lifelong Texan and Austin/SA/Corpus and the Hill country being all around one of my favorite areas of the state its really hard to make a recommendation as I could easily stay a week in any of the locations mentioned in this thread.

But if forced to make a decision for 3days I would say. One night on the river in SA, one day and night in the hill country around fredricksburg/San Marcos and one night in downtown Austin. Although being in your 20's if you really like the bar schene skip the other stuff and spend 3 days on sixth street in Austin.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Quote: Originally Posted by krylon Texas sucks /thread Yep. I am so thankful that most Texans stay in Texas.

And we are thankful that you stay as far away from Texas as possible

 

[KLyn316]

Yep. I am so thankful that most Texans stay in Texas.

So I'm sure this will get comments but . . .

You know a Texan will never ask you where you're from. If you're from Texas you'll let 'em know, and if you're not, well, we wouldn't want to embaress you.

I get to be the fun combination of a transplanted Texan living in Kentucky . . . you can't make a horse crazy person much happier than that.

 

[vi edit]

After spending a little over a week in Texas, spending a year with some med school residents from Texas, and spending another couple weeks in Ireland with a group from Texas I don't understand the bad rep that Texans get.

They were some of the most polite, friendly, and down to earth people I've met.

*shrug*

 

[HumblePie]

Lived and been pretty much all over Texas. All the cities have their own good and bad points. Seriously though, if you are just visiting as a tourist one of the major cities, there is enough to do in any of them you won't get bored for a few days.

They all have the tightly packed areas full of "quaint" bars and pubs and clubs with various themes to suit any taste. San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston have the theme parks that Austin does plus other things like bigger sports teams and followings that Austin doesn't have.

Now if beer is your thing, you can get close to Shiner, Texas for the huge brewery there from San Antonio. Houston I know has micro breweries as well like St. Arnolds for some tours and such on the weekends.

Basically, what I am trying to say is you really can't go "wrong" with visiting any major town in Texas. You can find something fun to suit your tastes in all of them. Now if you were looking to live long term somewhere.... Gah I miss Frys and Microcenter from Houston.

 

[Gibsons]

"a long way"? It's 20 minutes from the Domain to Zilker. Outer suburbia is Cedar Park or Round Rock, the Domain is still in city limits.

Add in parking time, construction on Chavez or some other place, and maybe even a traffic jam on Mopac. Compare to walking from a downtown hotel. Consider you can drink all you care to when you walk from downtown, and what a cab to and from the Domain would cost.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

After spending a little over a week in Texas, spending a year with some med school residents from Texas, and spending another couple weeks in Ireland with a group from Texas I don't understand the bad rep that Texans get.

They were some of the most polite, friendly, and down to earth people I've met.

*shrug*

Yeah I don't get it either, we Texans in general are really proud of being Texans some even to the point of being cocky or obnoxious maybe that sets some people off. And to generalize Texans into anyone category is impossible, with a population of over 20mil Texans we've got about every kind of person you can dream of here. I guess I can understand if someone has only been exposed to say one area of Texas and had an unfavorable opinion how they could transpose that on all Texans, lord knows we have some asshats and illiterate rednecks and duchebags like every other southern state but they are the minority not the majority in my opinion.

 

[thepd7]

Go to Llano or Lockhart if you want REALLY good BBQ, or Elgin if sausage is more your thing.

THIS! Lockhart is the best BBQ you'll get in your life. Salt Lick is decent, mostly it's fun because it's all you can eat and BYOB.

After spending a little over a week in Texas, spending a year with some med school residents from Texas, and spending another couple weeks in Ireland with a group from Texas I don't understand the bad rep that Texans get.

They were some of the most polite, friendly, and down to earth people I've met.

*shrug*

We're a little bit arrogant/too proud about being from Texas but that's it. Overall you can't go wrong anywhere in the south for hospitality and friendliness.

Add in parking time, construction on Chavez or some other place, and maybe even a traffic jam on Mopac. Compare to walking from a downtown hotel. Consider you can drink all you care to when you walk from downtown, and what a cab to and from the Domain would cost.

Parking time is somewhat valid, there's no construction on Caeser Chavez west of the convention center and Mopac doesn't have traffic going south until 5 or 5:30.

I agree a hotel down town would be nice but the domain has plenty to do and you can be parked in Zilker in 20 minutes. I know because I live a mile west of the domain and I played disc golf in zilker last weekend.

 

[vi edit]

We're a little bit arrogant/too proud about being from Texas but that's it. Overall you can't go wrong anywhere in the south for hospitality and friendliness.

I'm not sure on the "southern hospitality" thing. Some of the "real" southern people I've known almost had a saccharin sweetness to them where they act polite to your face but as soon as you turn your back you feel like they are holding a knife to you. The Texans I've been around seemed more genuine.

Like has been said...you can't generalize on a few interactions...that's just my experience.