A long first paragraph describing how we came to decide on our next vacation destination would be pointless, as I’ve already revealed it in my clever blog title (I should have been a rapper – could have put my superior rhyming skills to better use.)
Anyways, Buzz headed to Texas, ya’ll!
We just ordered our tickets and booked our flight for a trip to the Austin City Limits music festival. We’ll head out for the 3-day festival, which starts on September 26th, and stay for a few extra days to check out the city and surrounding Texas Hill Country and just relax (ahem, recover) before heading home to Beantown.
Austin is the “live music capital of the world,” so even though I haven’t heard of a lot of the 130 bands that will play at Austin City Limits, I’m sure I’ll have a blast and enjoy all of the music, nonetheless. I’m totally looking forward to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Beck, John Fogerty, G Love & Special Sauce, The Black Keys, Mason Jennings, Shooter Jennings and Joe Bonamassa. Heck – I’ll probably even dance until my feet hurt. If you are going the festival and see a blonde girl that dances like Elaine Benes from Seinfeld – it is probably me.
[...] Speaking of Plant & Krauss…David Fricke with Rolling Stone has written a great piece about the duo: [...]