Touchdown, Austin
July 17th, 2008 | by Jet Netwal |Made it to Austin for Netroots Nation without incident. Random thoughts about travel:
I forgot my book, so when I got to Orlando International Airport, I looked for a kiosk to buy a book. There was a grand total of 9 titles, and everyone of them was formulaic lightweight crap I wouldn’t read on a bet. Landed in Austin, headed away from the gate and ran into an book STORE. Yes, store. Thousands of titles, plenty of meat. Not exactly proud of OIA today.
Jet Blue? Is totally onto something. What a pleasant, comfortable, ON TIME flight. Bravo. Plus I made it through security without having to be wanded by Big Bertha. I’m sure she was disappointed.
Texas BBQ is not over rated. Sweet mercy.
I ran into an old bio-phyte, Matt Browner-Hamlin, who is working on the Mark Begich senate race in Alaska. It was great to put a face and name together. I don’t envy him switching up from Alaska weather to Texas tho — 50 degree switch in 24 hours. Politics isn’t for sissies.
Ran into some of the DFA people last night I’d met at the training I took in Orlando in May, which was fun. Jim Dean is getting here today, and I’ve got a meet with him set for tomorrow. I love the energy the DFA people have. You get around them and you can’t help getting charged up about being a Democrat.
There are bars and restaurants all over the place, and it’s easy to find a decent place to hang for low money. Much MUCH better than Chicago last year. Bonus feature, the last place we went played my favorite Liz Phair song.
Austin is flirting with me, and it’s working
One Response to “Touchdown, Austin”
By Dusty on Jul 17, 2008 | Reply
I know some bloggers who live in Austin. Its a beautiful city I would live there. Only Austin though..the rest of TX can kma.
Loved this one Jet-Plus I made it through security without having to be wanded by Big Bertha. I’m sure she was disappointed.
I went to the DFA convention that was held in San Diego a couple of years ago. Best time I ever had, and I enjoyed the entire convention. David Sirota was a speaker that year and a few other ‘big names’.