I’ve been very lucky in that my job has enabled me to visit Austin on many occasions since June 2001.  This includes a couple of two month stays in 2002 and 2003 and a vacation.   Austin is a great town, surrounded by some wonderful countryside, the people are great and there’s lots of live music every night of the week.  Oh, and I can’t forget the barbecue at the County Line, Rudy’s & the Salt Lick. [Read more]

Having started to learn to ride horses in the spring of 2003 whilst on a two month business trip to Austin, Texas I decided that I would go to Texas in the spring of 2004 to spend a week?s vacation being a cowboy at the Lazy F Ranch in Smiley, Texas… [Read more]