Any ride off the beaten path is always more fun, and I have a route to downtown Austin that I love. I duck under bridges, ride along a creek and through some woods. Here are a few highlights:
Rocky ledges and Shoal Creek start it out.
Hilly singletrack along the frisbee golf course.
One of the creek crossings and an underpass. Note the homeless guy on the right.
Only 92 more floors and this thing is the John Hancock Center. You can help out a coupla friends who are running up the Hancock to fight lung cancer.
From a grassy knoll, my CORE exercise class has an amazing view. This week (numero uno) I weighed in at 190 and had a 19.3% body fat reading.
Congress Ave – I looked, but I couldn’t find any of those dead birds.
The Capital was designed by a guy who built the IL and MI buildings. By coincidence, those are the only states I’ve lived in.
The new Blanton museum. We went to the opening with Kir and Lloyd and got drunk on white wine and danced to Pong.
Not too far from home – the UT tower. It’s famous, but for all the wrong reasons.
