San Antonio & Corpus Christi

So here it is: The big one. While watching the US Open Semi Finals there should be enough time to finish. On Thursday Thomas and I left Austin for 4 days. We first spent 2 nights in San Antonio before heading down south to coastal Corpus Christi for another two. For me the start was pretty stressfull because I had class until 4.45pm and the coach was sheduled for 6.50pm. In between I had to return home in rush hour traffic, get my bag and then ride to the Greyhound bus station in north Ausin. The ride normally not longer than 20 minutes, but again in rush hour seemed to take forever. My roommate Kevin gave us the lift. Thanks for that. Well, finally we made it just in time and tell you what. If you ever ride Greyhound expect it to be very cold. Thomas was lucky because he brought a sweater and even socks while I was freezing my ass off and later getting of the bus as an ice cube.

In SA we had booked a Super8 Motel quite close to downtown. Arriving there I set up a small mini bar in our sink to get ready to party downtown. We called a taxi and got really lucky cuz the driver was awesome. Here´s the story:
We wanted to go to club we found in the internet before. Well, our driver somehow got lost in the streets and suddenly stopped in the center of a crossing pulling out a huge flashlight to spot the streetnames. That fact was just sooo funny. Finally we arrived at the club and it wasnt crowded at all. We decided to have a couple of cheap two dollar vodka drinks in there and see whats going on. Nothing much, except our cab driver walking in the club to ask us whether we really wanted to stay in here. So he was waiting for us all outside the door the whole time and after we finished the another drink we went out and got a FREE ride downtown because he forgot to turn the meter on. So he drove us to coyote ugly bar with all these crazy going dancing grils. And even there he returned after 15 minutes to ask if thats better now or not. ;-) Just awesome.


After that we continued to Rive a nice club with 4 areas and Dollar drinks. At 2.30am the club closed and Thomas started making friends ....

Next day we did a small city tour. Here a some impressions. Alamo, Riversidemall.


And then have a look what cute ladies drive big cars over here.


An awesome thing about SA is the riverwalk. We have been there during day and night time. It is fantastic to see and sit in all those little restaurants next to the very small river. We, for example, had dinner at Dicks with a buddy we met at the Super8. Danny is an airforce pilot and told us some interesting stories. Hopefully one day he flies into Austin.


Also we met two girls who showed us around a couple of clubs that night. We have been to Mad Dogs, Poly Esters and so on. At one club at least the got german size drinks.

The next day we left for Corpus. As we havent had a hotel booked yet we first ran into a cafe to acess the web. Luckily we found a cheap motel at corpus christi´s beachfront. We spend relaxing two days at the beach throwing the rugby ball from time to time. At night we went out to party again, but this time not as hard as in SA.
The next pics show us, our motel in fency pink, the beach, our favorite place for dinner Pier 99, a nightclub and finally Thomas headcarrying a pitcher to beome taller.


Well, on Monday night we took the Greyhound back to Austin. After a 5 hour ride Daniel picked us up and gave a ride back to our apartment. And that´s it.

Hope you had some fun reading. Here ist a last one of a freaky restroom in a bar.
Markus