Warmth back to cold...

Austin Texas, where we found the best possible parking spot.

Driving hours on barren landscapes, peppered with oil pumps.

Sleeping in a state park in Roswell, NM, No UFOs witnessed, too cloudy.

Waking up the next morning and fixing up our bikes.

Taking them on the trail, exploding my back tire climbing up a rocky hill.

Taking off towards a northward state park, we stopped at a natural hot spring where we met up with a group of wwoofr organic farmers who offered to feed us and have a place to park. 

We spent the night and worked in the morning after Qigong, digging up posts embedded in the solid ground, digging holes for a bathroom they were preparing to put in.

Many amazing people, great souls with good things to say, as well as hackey-sack enthusiasts. Sad to leave this awesome group of people, but the road is where we belong. 

Slept at a state park the night after that, where we tried to conquer a hiking trail on our mountain bikes before realizing the endeavor was impossible. 

Today we're in Santa-Fe getting Bussy a much needed oil change before heading up into the daunting snow capped mountains we keep seeing in the distance. 

We left the 75 degree weather of Austin to climb into Taos where the max estimated temperature is just above 30. What are we thinking... After Taos we may just decide to haul ass back south-west towards more clement weather.

Farewell Austin

Taking off from Austin today, we've been warned by multiple people that if we stay too long we may never leave. Two people we've met have both said they were doing the same thing we were, travelling across the country, stopped in Austin and one had been there for 15 years, the other 20+. The city is great and full of life and friendly people but it's time to head to Roswell if we want to make it there by the full moon. Haven't been taking many pictures within the city but once we get back on the road I'll flood this blog up with a ton more pictures.

Austentatious Austin Texas

We've been hanging out in Austin for four days now, and loving every minute of it. Plenty of crazy encounters to hanging out playing frisbee and music with the homeless crowd from the park; some of the most awesome respectful people we've met so far. We've started to have people that we encounter sign the roof of our bus, so we'll have a plethora of signatures by the time he head back towards the east.

We found an Ultimate Frisbee pickup game yesterday and it was really painful playing in 70 degree weather for the first time in months, woke up pleasurably sore this morning. Hope all you folks up north aren't getting too cold.

When we get tired of hanging around Austin we're going to head west towards Roswell NM and hopefully get there on the full moon and send out astral signals to contact some alien life forms, we'll see what happens.

Picture dump post.

New Paint Job

We got the bus painted up all spiffy and now it looks like a harlequin. More to come as we progress on the decorating of this beast.