{"id":2917,"date":"2013-04-29T22:21:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juliachou.fr\/trips\/a-great-unexpected-week-end-in-texas.html"},"modified":"2013-04-29T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:21:42","slug":"a-great-unexpected-week-end-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juliachou.fr\/en\/trips\/a-great-unexpected-week-end-in-texas.html","title":{"rendered":"A great unexpected week-end in Texas."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was quietly taking a trip around the world when my friend Jake called me. I was in California, he had just moved to Texas… I jumped on the first plane to join him and it was really a good idea: we had a great weekend to discover Texas.
\nI landed at Austin airport and we started our adventure.
\nWe took the direction to Fredericksburg, a cute city of 10,000 habitants. Main street (the main street) looks like a Disney scenery with its old wooden houses.
\n\"Texas_01\"
\nTexas, it stings!
\nWe went to Enchanted Rock, a\u00a0 sacred rock\/mountain for Native Americans. The photo below shows you 2 people on the left. This place is huge.<\/p>\n

\"Texas_03\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Light, color and space are breathtaking! There is a small walk 15-30 minutes to climb to the top (I recommend you go with a GI, because for him it is a breeze, and you, you seem to be an old granny next to him).<\/p>\n

\"Texas_02\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We saw a crazy sunset, a game of shadows and colors a little bit crazy. then we finally decided to hit the road.
\nOn the way back, in the middle of nowhere, we came across a completely unreal bar at the roadside: Frontier Outpost.<\/p>\n

\"Texas_06\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Dogs played in the bar, which was heated by a large wood stove. People played music on the terrace. Everyone was talking and laughing. Ultra warm atmosphere.<\/p>\n

\"Texas_05\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Jake and I alternately took the guitar and jumped on stage. From my first song in French, I had the attention. In the end I played more than a dozen songs with a drummer and another guitarist, it was a magical and very special atmosphere!
\n\"Texas_04\"<\/a>
\nJake asked me “where do you want to sleep?\u00a0 particular desires?” And then I do not know why, I said “in a hunter cabin.”
\nThis gentleman called all his contacts to find a lovely place. And the result exceeded our hopes!<\/p>\n

\"Texas_07\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We stayed in a wooden house, 200 years old, with a fireplace and lots of super kitsch stuff on the wall.
\nObviously, I “did my princess” and I insisted on having a fire in the fireplace. So Jake went in search of wood in the middle of the night and turned on me with a good fire. The sound of crackling flames, the smell of wood burns, the warmth, what a joy, a real smooth!
\n\"Texas_08\"<\/a>This is our wooden house a few blocks from main street in Fredericksburg and yet surrounded by nature.
\nThe agency who booked it :
\nGastehaus Schmidt: 231 West Main, Fredericksburg, TX 78624, United States – +1 866-427-8374 – @ fbglodging – fbglodging.com<\/p>\n

For other hotels in Texas you can also watch on Holiday Check.
\n\"Texas_09\"<\/a>The next morning we went back on the road to Austin and we saw buffalos! They were really huge! Jake and I were very hungry, we thought the same thing “yum yum buffalo”. Courageous but not foolhardy, we chose to find a restaurant which offered buffalo burgers rather go try to hunt suddenly\u00a0 only ith our Swiss knife and cigarette lighter.<\/p>\n

\"huts\"<\/a>
\nWe stopped at Hut’s in Austin (807 W 6th St, Austin, TX 78703) and we enjoyed delicious buffalo burger.\u00a0 I took Arnold’s Best Guacamole + Bacon because it’s my favorite combo!<\/p>\n

\"Texas_11\"<\/a>
\nAustin is really a cute town, 6th street in particular. All bars (or most of them) have a rooftop.
\n\"Texas_12\"<\/a>
\nIn the evening, we went to a concert of The Roosevelts at Lamberts, a nifty place, good cocktails, great music. Austin is really a city where you have to listen live music.<\/p>\n

\"Texas_14\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After the concert, we had a walk in the streets, as it was 25C in January, it was quite nice.<\/p>\n

\"Texas_13\"<\/a> A true music celebration in the street and it’s like this every weekend apparently.
\nWe got the great apartment we rented:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.airbnb.fr\/rooms\/321857<\/a>
\nI recommend it, very central and Chris, the owner, is very cool!<\/p>\n

\"Texas_18\"<\/a>
\nThe next day we returned to Killeen, the town next to Fort Hood. I disguised IM waiting to visit the largest U.S. military base.<\/p>\n

\"Texas_17\"<\/a>
\nThe next day I went to visit this huge base that hosts 65,000 soldiers. Most places are confidential and I was not allowed to take photos (even discreetly, they are military, we do not laugh).<\/p>\n

\"Texas_16\"<\/a>
\nI saw lots of\u00a0 crazy stuff but I can not talk about it. And\u00a0 some top secret stories were been told ma… then I have to forget. I loved to visit the museum, with lot of helicopters and tanks!
\n\"Texas_15\"<\/a>All streets have fun names like “tank destroyer boulevard” and as you can see from the photo, we are under surveillance.
\nI can not wait to return to Texas, I had a crush for this place, it was completely unexpected for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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