Is it April yet?
For some reason, week 3 of travel really took a lot out of me. I have no idea what in the world is making me so tired (It could be the yellow fever vaccine still running its course) but even after a short 3 days on the road, I’m totally run down.
Not good for it only being Feb. 5.
I really need my road amnesia to kick in. I think that’s what happens this time of year. I forget what in the world happened the week before, forget all the reasons why this time of year is hard and end up feeling more refreshed.
Road Amnesia (noun): A survival tactic used by Study Abroad Road Warriors in order to make it through the day to day, week to week, month to month travel. Often the result of road fatigue.
Extreme cases include of Road Fatigue: 
· Inability to decipher the correct day of the week. If you’re away from home, you know its sometime between Sunday and Thursday.
· Confusion over physical location. Often wake up in the middle of the night not knowing what city, state or country you are in. You do however recognize instantly that you’re in a Holiday Inn Hotel.
· Constant to-do list running in your head.
· Extreme fear of forgetting reservations, material, or other work items
· Addiction to calendars, computers, smart phones and wi-fi. Screens haunt your dreams.
While the road life is incredibly hard on the body, it does give me some major opportunities to visit places and see things I’d probably never get the chance to. I figure work and non-work time needs to be balanced on the road---always trying to make time for the gym and a little sightseeing if possible.
This week was especially weird. It all started when I packed one brown sandal and one black sandal.
As I needed them both, it really made this week’s outfits a challenge.
I was so not prepared for San Antonio weather. Al Roker told me the day bef
ore I left that the weather was going to be nice, in the 70s. To me that means sun and warm and sun and…Catch my drift?
What that actually tuned out to be was rain and clouds and horribleness.
This was my first visit to both San Antonio and Austin. After my week in Lubbock, I was looking forward to a change in scenery.
My biggest complaint for the week is that my GPS does not understand Texas Highways. I got lost quite a few times because it told me to go north instead of south or vice versa.
I swear, this time it wasn’t user error.
What I did see of San Antonio and Austin, I liked.
My hotel was within walking distance of The Alamo. I’ll be honest, didn’t know much about this Texas Landmark till I got there and in all honesty, I was expecting it to be bigger, but it was still neat to see. On my drive from the airport, I also stopped off at two of the Missions. Also smaller then I thought they’d be.
I guess everything isn’t always big 
in Texas.
Someday, when it’s not shitting down rain, I’d like to spend more time on the Riverwalk. It looks like a fun place to hang out in the sun.
There was an Andy Warhol exihibt opening up the same day I left town that was just down the road to the Airport, I stopped by to see it since Andy Warhol is one of my favorite artist---which is why half of the art in my apartment are Warhol prints.
The museum was really cool. It was made out of a rich family’s old house. The exhibit itself was fantastic. It had a ton of Warhol art---comparing his love of celebrity to his obsession with death and violence. There were a few prints he had done of car accidents, suicides. There were even a few JFK/Jackie O prints. The Marilyns and the Maos were there too.
Part of the museum also housed a Theater section. They had just gotten in some of the original costumes and fashion prints from the Drowsy Chaperone. I’ve never seen the show, but they were playing the soundtrack, which includes the amazing Sutton Foster. It was neat seeing some of her costumes. 
The second part of the week was spent in Austin. I had such high hopes for the city. Everyone told me Austin is the best place in all of Texas. I didn’t get to spend that much time looking around, but I did make it to the original Whole Foods.
Which was amazing.
It was like the mecca of all grocery stores. Like the Disneyland for healthy eating. I could have spent days there simply eating my way through.
I also drove past the State Capital Building---which is apparently the tallest capital building in the country (surprise, surprise).
Right after my work event, I stopped by the LBJ Library---it took all of ten minutes to go through (at least it was free). There was this motorized, life size LBJ that started to talk when I entered the room.
He told jokes. LBJ the comedian? Go figure.
I’m heading back to Austin next week, really want to hit up Sandra Bullock’s restaurants.
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