Austin City Limits

Thursday, January 28, 2010

We left Waco around 10:30 and headed south down I-35 towards Austin, Texas.  We had drizzle and rain most of the way.  We have seen some reports of a tornado watch for the surrounding counties and heavy thunderstorms.  As I am writing this the power just went out so I am hopeful that it isn’t the result of a tornado. 

We arrived at the Cottonwood Creek RV Park, just west of Dripping Springs, TX just after 1:00 PM and were met my the manager as we drove in.  Sherry, helped us to get parked in our spot and showed us where all the utilities were located.  We are parked in a well treed secluded spot and there is a stream behind us, which we were told has just started running for the first time in two years.  Seems that they haven’t had a lot of rain here until the last couple of days.  We are also fairly close to Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) National Historic Park as well as Johnson City.  Apparently, this is the boyhood home of LBJ; so, we may be headed up there on a day trip to tour around.

Austin City Limits has been running on PBS four years and yes it is taped in Austin.  It is apparently harder to get a ticket for one of these tapings than it is to get a ticket for the University of Texas Longhorns football game.  Needless to say that will not be on our itinerary.