lone star love

I just arrived in Austin, TX for a work thing. (aside: Reason #235 why my job is awesome: I get to travel to rad places and stay in really nice hotels whilst feeling like I'm helping the world.) I've been here an hour and already Texas is living up to its reputation for resident pride. Saw a guy in the airport carrying a garment bag. This obviously wouldn't normally be worth noting, much less mentioning on a blog, but this guy's garment bag was special. The front was emblazoned with the Texas state flag. He was basically carrying the Lone Star over his shoulder...with some clothing accessories, of course. Also saw about a hundred people decked out in University of Texas Longhorn gear...granted 20 or so of them were members of UT's baseball team, who just won a 3 game series over Oklahoma State, but still. The Longhorn gear and garment bag (I still can't get over it) were enough to show me how much people here ardently love their state, their town and their cattle-mascoted university.

I'm pretty psyched to check out the town after hearing such great things about it for so long. And after seeing such endearing pride in the airport. Stay tuned.