Day 79 San Antonio-Austin, USA

Friday 26th August 2005

28.8.05 37 °C

Was on my way to Austin and still no reply from Mr Armstrong about him letting us stay at his ranch.You would think that after all the merchandise of his ive bought he would of least let us stay for afternoon tea and biscuits.I guess hes to busy going on tv and chat shows answering yet more false allegations from the bloody french bast**ds.
Everywhere you seem to drive in Texas the roads always seem to be being dug up but nothing looks like its ever going to get repaired.Even in the shopping malls they are digging up the floor.Maybe the workmen are like the ones in england where you get 1 man working and 5 standing there watching him.
Anyway on the way to Austin we stopped off at a shopping mall just north of San Antonio to visit the Discovery Channel store where i was hoping to buy some cycling clothing but even though they advertise they sell it they didnt stock any.
After that we made our way to the Natural Bridge Caverns which was somewhere i wanted to visit as it reminded me of Wookie Hole near Cheddar Gorge in England which i visited in 1990.The tour guide took us around for an hour in which time we saw an 8000 year old black bear jaw bone and going down to 211 ft we saw huge rooms full of fantastic stalagmites and stalactites in many weird and wonderful shapes.The caverns were great and the tour very interesting although yet again some chinese tourists managed to spoil it by talking all the way through the tour.
Then it was on the road to Austin and once we checked into the hotel and a short sleep we headed down to 6th Street where the local nightlife is.It turned out to be a fairly early night as everyone was tired so we decided to hit the town properly tomorrow night.

Natural Bridge Caverns,Texas