Austin: The Delaplaine 2020 Long Weekend Guide
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About this ebook
A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in Austin, the “heart of Texas,” as the locals are fond of saying.
“I’d driven through the town, but when I decided to stop for a couple of days to see what everybody had always raved about, I downloaded this ebook to give me the skinny. Worked fine.”
--- Red H., online reviewer, Tuscaloosa
“Really an interesting town. People are so nice.”
--- Tony K., online reviewer, Boston
You'll save a lot of time using this concise guide.
=Lodgings (in several parts of Austin) variously priced
=Fine & budget restaurants, more than enough listings to give you a sense of the variety to be found.
=Principal attractions -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.
=A handful of interesting SHOPPING ideas.
Andrew Delaplaine
Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: andrewdelaplaine@mac.com He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details). His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.
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Austin - Andrew Delaplaine
AUSTIN
The Delaplaine
2020
Long Weekend
Guide
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Andrew Delaplaine
Senior Writer
James Cubby
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Copyright © by Gramercy Park Press - All rights reserved.
Please submit corrections, additions or comments to:
andrewdelaplaine@mac.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 – WHY AUSTIN?
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Chapter 2 – GETTING ABOUT
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Chapter 3 – WHERE TO STAY
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Chapter 4 – WHERE TO EAT
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Chapter 5 – NIGHTLIFE
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Chapter 6 – WHAT TO SEE & DO
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Chapter 7 – SHOPPING & SERVICES
Austin-downtown-hotel-map-FINAL copyChapter 1 –
WHY AUSTIN?
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Austin may always be one of those cities that people always have something to say about if they are familiar with it or have been there before, but it might never reach the top of their Places I need to visit!
list.
However, if you do find yourself visiting the heart of Texas, you may be pleasantly surprised.
Who would have ever thought that engrained into the pulsing Republican, Conservative, and sometimes over-the-top Old Fashioned (we won’t say racist) center of Texas is perhaps one of the most liberal and free spirited cities in the U.S.
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I can’t emphasize the importance of MUSIC in Austin. The SXSW Festival has energized the town and made it a center of music recognized around the world.
There is so much to see tucked amid all the natural beauty: smug latte drinkers at coffee shops, long-haired college students, struggling musicians (and not so struggling
), corporate big heads (and their headquarters) all peacefully sequestered away in the rolling hills of Travis County just on the eastern part of the hill country of Central Texas.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is Austin!
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WATERLOO & THE BEGINNING
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The area around the Colorado River that Austin is hinged on has been inhabited by humans for an estimated 11,000 years at least (this is long before Dazed and Confused
debuted).
Originally the Clovis Indians are known for dominating this area, with a few other tribes that passed through.
Texas won its independence in 1835-36 from Mexico and became its own country known as the Republic of Texas. Newly formed, Texas began looking for a place to call their capital. They were attracted to an area known as Waterloo as it provided grounds for a stable settlement. There were hills, fresh soil, and a river running through it. It was also a geographical center-point for trade routes between Galveston and Santa Fe. Travis County was established in 1840, and after some short altercations with a few Comanche Indians, settlement began.
Initially Austin grew very quickly, and of course met with a few setbacks including the heat from political giant Sam Houston who was disgusted with the formation of Austin as the Texas Capital. And of course, there was the Civil War.
Chapter 2 –
GETTING ABOUT
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Some say that Austin is a College Town.
Don’t let that mislead you. The famed University of Texas is just one of the many interesting sights in Austin.
Austin and the surrounding areas make up the fourth largest metropolitan area in Texas with about 850,000 citizens. Austin is pretty much in the center of Texas at the border of the hill country (that moves westward in Texas) and situated on the banks of the Colorado River. Austin is in the middle of three cities, Dallas to the north, Houston to the east southeast, and San Antonio to the south.
Austin is about 200 miles by road south from Dallas (Dallas has a population of 1.2 million, and ranks as third largest city in Texas).
Houston is east of Austin (and a little south) and can be reached by Highway 290.
Houston has a population of over 2 million making it the highest populated area in Texas.
San Antonio is 81 miles South (and a little west) of