Tag: San Antonio

AC where have you been?

Adventure Cow has not left the state of Texas since the middle of October. But he has still had some adventures; not sure they have been Texas-sized, but he is still adventuring.

AC is a Baltimore Ravens fan (most of the time). We found Flock  #512 down Lamar street in South Austin.

Here he watches the TV’s and people eating the best smashburger around.
He was in this picture – but, behind a small flag.

AC’s been to comedy shows: Ryan Hamilton at the Dallas Improv: https://youtu.be/Sn5VDdTUNyI, but of course, no pictures with the performers are allowed.

He watched the whole show, laughing so hard he almost fell off the table.

He saw Louis Black at the Dallas Majestic Theater: https://www.lewisblack.com/, but of course, no pictures with the performers are allowed.

He saw Sarah Millican at The State Theater in Austin. Sarah is a favorite of Linda and Andy from when they lived in London:  https://sarahmillican.co.uk/, but of course, no pictures with the performers are allowed.

AC was very excited to be part of an audience while a comedy special was being taped. He saw Jimmy O. Yang perform his stand-up special at The Paramount Theater in Austin. https://www.jimmycomedy.com/jimmy-o-yang-videos/, but again, no pictures with the performers are allowed.

A good night to not have center seats – that’s where the cameras were.

Amazingly, the next night he saw another comedy special taped, right next door at The State. This one was Demetri Martin: https://demetrimartin.myshopify.com/, but of course, no pictures with the performers are allowed.

AC loves Demetri’s pictures of animals – you can’t see them here; again no pictures of performers.

AC was back at Austin’s Paramount where he saw the NPR’s Wait, Wait Stand-Up Tour. Hosted by Alonzo Bodden and featuring Adam Burke, Negin Farsad and Maz Jobranni.  https://www.npr.org/about-npr/1115373955/wait-wait-dont-tell-me-launches-a-stand-up-comedy-tour, but this time: Pictures with the performers were allowed, just not during the performance.

There was actually some discussion of who would hold AC for the picture – but Alonzo won out.

He’s been to San Antonio. Linda and Andy have been to SA several times before, and mostly found it underwhelming. The Alamo; with it’s fairly conflicted story, is small and the Main River Walk is all restaurants with high prices and long lines. But, the SA airport was offering speedy appointments for Global Entry passes, (which Linda did not have) so paperwork was filled out and off we went back to San Antonio. Aj told us to go up the river to the Pearl District. This is a converted industrial area that is a much better section of the river walk. Read more about it here: https://atpearl.com/  While in San Antonio, Aj also recommended at stop at the McNay Museum. https://www.mcnayart.org/ A lovely converted Spanish style home with beautiful gardens.

AC found a lovely pool and fountain in the sculpture garden of the McNay.

AC loves going to Dallas. He gets to do fun things like seeing Ryan Hamilton, but he also went to Octoberfest, encouraged Aj and Aaron as they ran the BMW half marathon, and he celebrated his first Hannukah.

See how well AC fits in?
AC pretends to run too!
Here he gives Aj a hoof bump at about mile 9
Presents, Chocolate, Candles; all fun, but it was a first to see a dancing Hannukah dog

Because Linda and Andy need multi-entry visas for an upcoming trip to Vietnam and Cambodia, AC has also been to Houston a couple times. It is a very large city, with a Texas-sized highway system (no doubt here) and in addition to the Vietnamese Consulate it also has Space Center Houston, https://spacecenter.org/ – so the trip is still very interesting.

He is a pretty small cow next to the Space Shuttle, but that is part of what makes it fun.
He is even smaller next to a Saturn V rocket
The Space Center has a special nighttime exhibition for the holidays – Galaxy Nights.
Not far from the Space Shuttle, a shooting star shines brilliantly
A beautiful garden, (actually at Bayou Bend in Houston as I did not understand all of Aj’s recommendations) dressed for the holidays.
One recommendation of Aj’s that we did get right – St. Arnolds Brewery. https://www.saintarnold.com/
AC has also been out and about in Austin too. Here he finds Netherland stroopwafels at a downtown coffee shop.
And, of course, sometimes he goes out beer tasting locally. Here he is in the Mueller District, Whichcraft. https://www.whichcraft.com/

AC hopes to travel out of Texas soon; but many details are still being worked out, that is the adventure part. We will end this post where we began; AC is ready for more adventures, and we have promised him that he can go on at least a few more; but when? to where?