Tears of Joy, Austin

This is such a cool shop, the selection is hughe and they have pretty much everything chilli related.


A great place to pick up some christmas gifts and also some additions to the hotsauces back home. We got some peach and pineapple sauces. And a couple of those super super hot oils and extracts.

They even got a place in the back set up with sometortilla chips and a fridge full of different tasting bottles.


Lets hope it handles the flight back home ok. We got it bubblewrapped, double platic bag. All good.

Casino el Camino, Bloody Mary

We stopped by Casino el Camino for some drinks – they are kinda famous for their burgers and bloody mary. This time we went for the bloody marys only,. 


Just look at this masterpiece, they make them on a scale from 1 to 10. This was a five, the six will have habanero peppers and I think the ten will have some ghost pepper added to it. Topped off with bacon, tomato and cheese..pickled cucumber..onions..lots of stuff.

Local artist at Darwin pub

We where hanging out on Darwin (they do excelent moscow mules drinks). And after a while a local hero came and presented us with a drawing of us. What a nice way to make a dollar instead of beggin.

It was worth 5$, we will have to get it framed back home.

Wedding anniversary

5 th of Nov, we have been married for a whole year allready. Time flies,

We celebrated at Geraldines in the Van Zandt hotel just across the street. They have jazz brunch every sunday at 11am,  live band playing while one enjoys ones anniversary brunch drinks.


I also got to taste a ‘croq madam’ sandwich for det first time. Pretty happy with that!, there was also a cuban version of egg benedict – lets see f we can get back there agan before we leave. A bit more pricy than ihop – but so! nice food.


The band was really great to, the whole setting was very nice. Highly recomend a trip here for a bit fancy brunch and some nice live music.

Voodoo doughnut

Austin has all these nice weird places happening. Like Voodoo Doughnut – mid 6th street, a huge line inside with people picking their favourites from a huge selection of dgnts.


It was only supposed to be a small snack, but we had to at least try a few different ones. They had a spinnng display at the counter, so just point and ask.


We got a small selection, of course way to much food. But when you see a doghnut with bacon, its not like its an everyday kinda thing back home. Gotta taste it at least 🙂


Crazy, but super good ,!


As with all other places, there was also here a stage with live music. Real good band with just guitar n a girl on vocals. 

Amazing Austin

It was love at first sight for Austin and me. I love how this town celebrates its wierdness and anything out of the ordinary.
Comedy is fun, and in Austin there are a lot of small venue shows. Hilarious and very up close and personal.
Trond really likes the ATMs

Even the ATMs look cozy and inviting

Romantic 6 th street
Fun foodtrucks with super food can be found anywhere

Arrived in Austin

Finaly here, and prettu much on track related to jetlag. We did what is allways the best thing to do on day one, stay up until you are near falling asleep standing up.


Started out easy peasy at «Easy Tiger», at the start fof 6th street – the party party main street of Austin, meeting up with Katrine for a snack and some fancy drinks.

I‘ve been here before, many years ago when this was an Cuban resturant. Story of that is probably tucked away somewhere deep in this blog thingy. Anyways, now they do sandwiches and drinks. Supernice place where they have seating by the small river running trough town, a bit secluded from the thing that is 6th street.


We had just dropped of our car at Hertz, and spent some time walkng around, shopping some souveniers.. having a few beers. We are living at the Millenium apartment complex, so everything is in walkng distance.




We also met up with Greag at Bangers, on rainey street. Its a beer and sausage plca – serving excelent sausages with all kinds of combination. I think we had one with wild boar and fig jam, super nice.


100+ on tap, tons of bottles and cans. A massive choice of sausages that are made onsite. If you ever get to Austin you need to stop by here.


Weather is also nice when the sun sets and a bit of the humidity goes away. We sat here for hours trying everything from oat sake to double mango ipa. Real nice place


Nice pic huh? 😉

Then we hit some bars, and also 20 minutes of drunk souvenier shopping. Thats allways a good ide. And when we where tired and ready to call it a night, we found that one of the comedy cluds just in some minutes would have a live performance.


Alonzo Bodden, funny guy – and a perfect end to our first night inweird Austin

Yeah,, and here is a picture of a food truck.