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Joshua on November 12th, 2007

Saturday we headed down to McKinney Falls State Park. Mat and Becca had been last weekend and said it was great. They told us stories of tons of frogs, snails, and great hiking. We didn’t see quite as many frogs, but I think we’ll definitely be back. As we’ve come to expect from Texas they […]

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Joshua on October 23rd, 2007

Last Sunday we went hiking at Bull Creek. We weren’t really sure what to expect, but thought there might be some chance of swimming. Sunday was about 88 degrees. Its October. Not like back home. The park is rather large. The part we went to is just a few miles down the road from our […]

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Joshua on October 18th, 2007

Today we had the lowest humidity Austin has seen since one day in the middle of April.  The average humidity today was 42 percent.  That felt so good.  I ran and the sweat, get this, evaporated off of me.  I know.  I know.  Crazy, huh?  It was still 88 F, but felt so much better […]

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Joshua on October 15th, 2007

Apparently there is a rather large cave system under Austin.  Who knew?  Kicks it up one notch on the cool scale as far as I’m concerned.  I’m just glad I wasn’t the one on the news last night being rescued.   Three UT students (Aggies insert jokes here) were rescued from the caves unharmed, but after […]

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