More Shoe Box
Red, White & Boots
From longhorns to shortribs,
from hot sauce to cool music,
and from the two-step to the Tour de Lance...
Austin just seems to have the best of everything.
Its position as the Gateway to Texas Hill Country
commonly prompts the description of Silicon Hills in TECH-xas.
It's a 24-hour-a-day city
with its own brand of diverse culture
that encompasses the entire spectrum
as broad indeed as the whole of the Texas horizon:
From boots to boutiques,
politics to pico de gallo,
free-tailed bats to cowboy hats,
wildlife to wildflowers,
river bluffs to city lofts,
Gruene Hall to bluebonnets,
capitol dome to down home,
Town Lake to country music
and Tex-Mex to tech's wrecks...
From 10K runs to 6th Street fun,
Barton Pool to grad school,
golf courses to natural resources,
film fests to deer pests,
First Thursdays on SoCo to casual Friday anyday,
Pennybacker to a Ransom,
rare books to overlooks,
Texas Exes in SUV's,
MoPac to horseback,
U of T to Treaty Oak,
and star-filled skies to eyes of Texas.
From Will Wynn to Willie Nelson,
the Driskill Hotel to Mount Bonnell,
Arboretum to Arts District,
dance halls to waterfalls,
moonlight towers to Jim Hightower,
Esther's Follies to 'Dillo Trolleys,
Katz's Deli to Dell Diamond,
St. Edwards to Edwards aquifer,
Long Center to Central Market,
Greater Tuna to Laguna Gloria,
Antones to dinasaur bones,
Philosopher's Rock to Shiner Bock,
The Backyard to Yard Dog,
and Bob Wade to West Cave.
From McKinney Falls to Bass Hall,
hike and bike to Broken Spoke,
ballet tu-tu's to Waterloo,
tailgate parties to arty galleries,
warehouse district to redistricting,
Lyle Lovett to Lovers Steps,
Dixie Chicks to Duck Tours,
Deep Eddy to Stevie Ray,
lobbyists to Book People,
Six Flags to the Drag,
and Hippie Hollow to the Governor's Mansion.
It's slogan may be "Keep Austin Weird"
but you could just as well spell it w-i-r-e-d,
since everything seems to have some sort of web connection.
That includes this Austin Granny.
FEW CITIES EXCITE THE IMAGINATION LIKE AUSTIN!!!
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
— Oprah Winfrey
It ain't braggin'
if it's true.
