I love my new house and neighborhood!
So I moved Saturday into a duplex by 35th st and loop 1 (mopac). It's such a great neighborhood and house! I've wanted to live closer to downtown for a long time so that I can bike more places, but I was always worried that if I moved to the north side that I wouldn't have much parks to bike to so I was always thinking to move by Zilker park, but that neighborhood is crazy expensive. I think I lucked out that the place I moved into just happens to be about 4 blocks from the shoal creek hike+bike trail which goes all the way from 38th street to town lake! I can bike to downtown with only taking a few blocks of streets! Also, I'm about 2 miles from dhaba joy, wheatsvile, mount bonnel, some of my friends, and more :). So I still have a lot of unpacking to do, and organizing, and trashing/donating/recycling old stuff.
Sunday I went biking with gabriel around the neighborhood. We went up bullcreek rd a little, down by windsor/enfield/hartford, and then took the Shoal Creek trail all the way back up to my neighborhood.
Monday, Ross biked down to my place (which turns out to be about 25 minute bike) and then we biked to dhaba joy and had dinner. Tuesday, I biked to the HEB at 41st and red river, met up with Gabriel, and got some awesome whitewave vegan tamales (I've been looking for them for a while). Today I decided to finally bike to Mount Bonnell. It is a pretty steep hill, and I had to walk up it on the two steepest parts. Once I got to Covert Park, I carried my bike up the stairs to the top of mount bonnell. The sight was awesome as usual, but I forgot to take my camera. Then I carried my bike down back to the street and biked over to Mayfield Park (which I know as Laguna Gloria). I don't remember ever being there before, but I think my parents took me when I was a kid. I walked around the lake path and walked down to the lake. Yay red-ear sliders in Lake Austin! Then I decided to bike through tarry town and on exposition a little to go by Monica's library and what was NuAge Cafe. Looks like there isn't anything at the location where NuAge was; maybe one of us should start a new vegan restaurant there? :) Then I biked down exposition to enfield, took enfield to this street where there's a community garden, took that street to west lynn, went past where west lynn cafe used to be and biked all the way to 6th street. Then I went back up to 9th street, took 9th street to the BMX park. Unfortunately, there was no kids doing tricks at the park. Took the Shoal Creek trail up to 29th street, decided I was too hot and should go for some vegan icecream at dhaba joy. There new icecream is pretty good, but I miss the oatscream for some reason. I tried there new quiche. It was pretty good. I'm not really a quiche fan, so it wasn't what I'm into, but it's always good to try new things to break the monotony and make life more interesting. Then I went back down the the trail and took the trail all the way back. I guess I should do some more house work such as unpacking, organizing, setting things up, or maybe I should do some work from home....
Sunday I went biking with gabriel around the neighborhood. We went up bullcreek rd a little, down by windsor/enfield/hartford, and then took the Shoal Creek trail all the way back up to my neighborhood.
Monday, Ross biked down to my place (which turns out to be about 25 minute bike) and then we biked to dhaba joy and had dinner. Tuesday, I biked to the HEB at 41st and red river, met up with Gabriel, and got some awesome whitewave vegan tamales (I've been looking for them for a while). Today I decided to finally bike to Mount Bonnell. It is a pretty steep hill, and I had to walk up it on the two steepest parts. Once I got to Covert Park, I carried my bike up the stairs to the top of mount bonnell. The sight was awesome as usual, but I forgot to take my camera. Then I carried my bike down back to the street and biked over to Mayfield Park (which I know as Laguna Gloria). I don't remember ever being there before, but I think my parents took me when I was a kid. I walked around the lake path and walked down to the lake. Yay red-ear sliders in Lake Austin! Then I decided to bike through tarry town and on exposition a little to go by Monica's library and what was NuAge Cafe. Looks like there isn't anything at the location where NuAge was; maybe one of us should start a new vegan restaurant there? :) Then I biked down exposition to enfield, took enfield to this street where there's a community garden, took that street to west lynn, went past where west lynn cafe used to be and biked all the way to 6th street. Then I went back up to 9th street, took 9th street to the BMX park. Unfortunately, there was no kids doing tricks at the park. Took the Shoal Creek trail up to 29th street, decided I was too hot and should go for some vegan icecream at dhaba joy. There new icecream is pretty good, but I miss the oatscream for some reason. I tried there new quiche. It was pretty good. I'm not really a quiche fan, so it wasn't what I'm into, but it's always good to try new things to break the monotony and make life more interesting. Then I went back down the the trail and took the trail all the way back. I guess I should do some more house work such as unpacking, organizing, setting things up, or maybe I should do some work from home....