Wednesday nights are kinda slow in downtown Austin (relatively speaking) with music really hitting its stride Thursday night through Saturday. Along 6^th (North of Congress), we stopped into a few places and happened upon a band called Wilson playing at the open air venue of The Belmont restaurant. Here’s their rendition of “We Won’t Get Fooled Again.”

Since the day we moved here, I have wanted to walk up 6^th Street to Whole Foods (about one mile) and look at all the restaurants along the way—and there are many. The one I have been dying to stop in to try is Hut’s Hamburgers, one of those places heralded by Jane and Michael Stern in their Roadfood site and books. To say the least, we were not disappointed.

We walked out the front door and headed two blocks down Colorado and there on the right side is Antone’s, the legendary Austin music venue. It was a quiet Monday night and it was Super Soul Monday, featuring Flyjack and Uncle Bruno. These two local bands were just fantastic as they played for close to three hours wit ha few songs in which members of one band jammed with the other. This was truly one of the great reasons we moved to Austin.

Having owned a second home before, we quickly learned that transportation costs can get out of hand. For starters, our new place is in the middle of everything in Austin—food, music, etc…--so we can either walk everywhere or take Capital Metro, a great local public transit system.

Where you can really rack up the expense is in getting to and from the airport. In Austin, however, for 50 cents, you can take the Airport Flyer (Capital Metro 100) from ABIA and you whisked into downtown or the UT campus in minutes.

Been a while since I have been at the video switch. Our first day in our new second home in Austin included visits to the two Saturday farmers markets, one down the street at 4^th and Guadalupe and the other out in Sunset Valley. And if you are the live music capital of the world, there would have to be music at the markets. At the Downtown Market there’s Brian Byrne and Borrowed Time; out in Sunset Valley, it was a fill in for one of the regulars, so I didn’t catch his name