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Sally is Back!

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Hello. I'm Trip

After a year of living with my parents and after getting settled in to my new apartment, I made the drive back to the DFW to pick up my dog, Sally. With another 3 1/2 hour drive back, my newly acquired road dawg, and loads of traffic, we headed back to Austin after a long weekend.

Road Dawg

Sally liked the new place a lot (so it seems). After work yesterday, we ventured over to Zilker Park and I let Sally run all of her energy out until the sun went down. While at Zilker, I had flashbacks to Primrose Hill in London, a very scenic spot that overlooked the London skyline. I didn’t think that I would miss London THIS much, but I have. I have kind of adopted the London approach and being in a new city since I have been here in Austin. I have substituted the Underground for the Metro (bus) and have slowly started to familiarize myself in and around Austin.

Sally at Zilker Park

– Trip

Catching Up

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Hello. I'm Trip

I am going to attempt to touch on all the relevant / cool stuff that’s happened in the last two weeks. I officially moved to Austin December 29th into a cozy 2 story apartment off of 35W & 290, just 5 minutes from downtown. I moved in with one of my good buddies, Josh who I did a little touring with in the past summers.

A few days later, I brought in the New Year with Josh & his girlfriend and Dilly & Tara. We waited for the countdown at a bar on Rainey Street then made it to all the madness on 6th Street. I spent the next day finishing unpacking and got ready for my first day of work at my new job.

I was overly stoked for the public transit that Austin has to offer. I got up early for my first day of work, made breakfast and walked a few hundred feet to my bus stop. It was about a 15 minute bus ride to downtown and it was awesome! I was under the impression that I would just be filling out paper work and get shown around what they do at GetMeFriends. On the contrary, I was writing blogs and monitoring all of the 40 social media accounts for our clients. It was fun and exciting.

I got on the right bus home but headed in the wrong direction. What was a 15 minute bus ride downtown to get here turned to a 3 hour ride home.

The following week of work was great. A little more repetition of work and I already feel like I’ve the hang of it. The following weekend, Mollie got back to Texas from her Christmas vacation in Switzerland. She came down to Austin for the weekend to visit and it was very refreshing seeing a pretty, familiar face again.