Showing posts with label East side bike ride.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East side bike ride.. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Bike Ride in East Austin

I think this was already 2, maybe 3 weeks ago...but James and I decided to go for a bike ride on the east side a random Saturday afternoon. This is dangerous for a couple reasons.

Reason #1
Your Mom's is def one of my favorite guilty pleasures in Austin. Come visit, and we'll buy some beers and bike there for a burger treat. You'll love it.

Reason #2
It's hot as hell in the middle of the day here, and we were on our bikes. It was a sweat fest. Ick.

The real reason I wanted to go for a ride was that we had taken a weird way home one night and I was intrigued by all the cool party stores in the neighborhood. Camera in hand we took off on a party store mission.

Victory almost immediately^^^ Kitty corner from Raquel's was another party store, but I like Raquel's blatent middle finger to Disney and copyright laws, so it's getting featured.

An old Johnson & Johnson store right across the street from Raquel's. It's being remolded, not sure to what. Weird side bar: I watched a documentary recently by the most current Johnson & Johnson heir, Born Rich. It's not great, it's really not even that good, but the power went out with like 15 minutes left and I was streaming it on Netflix and so I still haven't finished it and I'm intrigued I guess.








So anyway. We biked around for a while, took some pictures, ate a burger, and got real sweaty. As we were biking home I remembered seeing a little book store on the ride I wanted to swing through. I think I fell in love. Domy books will be taking money from me, and I don't feel bad about it.