Artificial Cheese

It appears that I wrote my summary of Austin hastily.  I was proven wrong; not by facts, not by the unfolding of poorly predicted happenings, but by relativity.

I wrote that the traffic in Austin was bad.  Now I will defend myself by saying that this is true; traffic in Austin is worse than the traffic around Philadelphia.  What I failed to realize is that using Philadelphia as a benchmark will result in a lot of disappointment.

I took my first trip out to California last weekend, after spending two weeks in Austin.  I made the mistake of staying in downtown LA for a wedding out in the lavish suburbs.  So I was wrong about that, but thats not the subject here.  I ended up landing at LAX at 7am, and reaching my hotel at 10am.  Thats about 25-30 miles in 2 hours if you factor in baggage claim and car rental.

The rest of the weekend was just a melody of navigating through miles of parking lots.  The weekend’s events were great but what other city has traffic at 3am?

When I got back to Austin I realized that I sold the city short.  So I was wrong…you have to remember that I have lived on the East Coast for 24 years, how was I supposed to know that traffic could get so miserable?  Its not like Austin has the best traffic either, so I’m not completely wrong.  You just like to point out people’s flaws so no one see’s your own, don’t you?  I don’t need to justify anything to you.

Stay tuned for more blogging!