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How many of you were aware that there is a nudist park in Austin? I would bet not many. At least, I wasn't until recently. But there it is: Hippie Hollow, the only clothing-optional park in all of Texas. It is at Lake Travis, and it has both a walking and hiking trail. If you are over 18 and want to shed your inhibitions for ...

In many cities it's easy to forget about nature....about the great outdoors. Austin is one of the great cities where this isn't true, and Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve on the west side of the city is a prime example why.   http://www.wildbasin.org/index.lasso

With 3 miles of trails in the 227 acre preserve to explore you can find plenty of nature ...

Austin's East Side has become a hot spot of late. Some call it yuppification/gentrification, others call it progress/revitalization. Regardless of which side you might fall on in this debate, the East Side offers some of the best eats and culture in Austin. It will be my goal for the next few entries to offer some lovely East Side options. Here is one evening itinerary I took only two weeks ago.

Dinner: ...

While many do know of this wonderful feature of our city, many do not. Yes, Austin has a wonderful Museum of Art, several in fact, but the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria is special in so many ways.  ( http://www.amoa.org/ )

When I was young, I simply knew it as Laguna Gloria, and it wasn't the beautiful art ...

If you are lolling around in Austin and need to find some way to pass the time, there are a couple of places that would be perfect for you. The first is Toy Joy on Guadalupe and the second is Tesoro's on Congress.

Toy Joy is the craziest toy store I have ever seen. It is jam-packed, filled with toys from ceiling to floor. Walking in there ...

A hidden gem, Big Kolache (2407 S Congress Ave, Austin, 78704 - (512) 383-9050) offers even the most discriminating palates options of delicious pastries known as the kolache. True to its name, the Big Kolache provides fresh-baked, scrumptiously large kolaches. 

According to Wikipedia: A kolache (also spelled kolace, kolach, or kolacky, from the Czech and Slovak plural koláče) is a type of pastry consisting of fillings ...

I don't know how many of you out there are nerds like myself, but Austin is filled with some very excellent places to go and stick your nose in a book, if you so desire.

The most obvious choice - and the origin of the pun in this post title - is BookPeople, a simply excellent bookstore on N. Lamar. BookPeople has Austin-y and Texas-y stuff, a cafe, and ...

If you are looking for a great place to spend the day wandering from thrift shop to antique store to high quality resale, you'll want to go check out the shops on Burnet Road.

My absolutely favorite resale store in Austin is the Next-To-New Shop of St. David's Episcopal Church. They have an amazing variety ...

As an old year closes and a new year begins, it seems only right to review one of my favorite places to hang out in downtown Austin.  Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar.  I have never been to Pete’s and said to myself after words…..”You know I didn’t have a good time.

This great concept is not only located in Austin but conveniently in other ...