Austin, Texas

Well, I finally made it in to Austin, Tx. on Sunday at 2:30pm. That's right, I woke up on Friday at noon, stayed up and went to work at 7pm, got off work at 7am, and then started driving at 0730 from Palo Alto, Ca. to Austin, Tx. Driving straight through, I made about 29 hours of driving time to arrive in Austin, and was awake for almost 48 hours.

I can't take full credit, as I have to thank the 4 cans of Monster Energy drink for helping me to stay quite awake. Haha, that stuff really works...I chugged a can, and then sipped the other ones. I wasn't even tired. Above is the picture that I took at 1am, as I rolled into Texas (at El Paso). hahaha

I stopped drinking energy drinks, cause I knew I had to sleep an hour or two. So I managed 91 miles east of El Paso, before I was hallucinating redwood trees laying across the highway. LOL I slept 2 hours and then kept driving.

I called my soon to be new roomate, and told him I'd make it to the Hash run after all.
Here is a shot of Fredricksburg, Tx., and being a Sunday, there were all kinds of bikes out riding. I did latch on to a fancy Range Rover who was driving fast, from here to Austin. It helped pass the time.
I rolled into Austin, on IH-35 and I'm just about there, and just in time, cause the Austin Hash run startss at 3pm. After unloading my things, I popped up a Chelada and got ready to go. Slut Slinger and I took off to NW Austin (cedar creek) for the run. As we were driving, I looked at him and said, "you know this is a bad idea, you and I rooming in the same house?!" and he just looked back, smirked, and said.."hell yeah" HAHAHAHAHA these next 3 months in Austin will be messy.


After a brief chalk talk, and me not paying attention, and saying hello to a lot of other hashers I hadn't seen in a long time...the trail started.

I was going to walk it, and just chill, but as soon as I started running, I wanted to keep going.....I followed Padre, and him and I were trading the front back and forth. Sometime during the beginning of the run, I was trying to go through a barbed wire fence, tripped, fell through it, scraped me, and I fell into a Cactus...HAHAHAHAHA, dammit. So at the first beer stop, I had to stand there as they plucked needles out of my back and hand.

A couple other guys were also running in the front.
In the end, at the 2nd beer stop, a few of us got greedy with zenning trail...and we went off the 183 (we made the wrong turn), and ended up on the toll way for about a mile. hahahaha then had to go across a small river, and ran a trail, in the opposite direction of the ending...back to the start. LOL we suck. so we found a map and off to the end we go.

where we had to drink for DFL, backsliding, and me for falling thru a barbed wire fence onto a cactus.

Good times, and called it a night early.

Today was awesome, except orientation was a bit slow and boring, but I saw a few friends in the E.R. and caught up with them, tomorrow I go and look at the motorcycle I want to buy, and the weather has been stellar....oh yeah, and I ATE AT FREEBIRDS burrito's!!!!