Buddy -

As to the hill country being outlaw country, yeah, I can see that. I just had a flash about Salt Lick BBQ! Yum!

I have traveled out to the west of Austin into Fredericksburg and Wimberley. I really like it out there. Austin is that sea of weirdness in the middle of East Texas. It is a cool place but the politics are just that – weird.

I spent two years in recent history working a contract at a now defunct semiconductor company in Austin helping them spin up a new factory in north central Japan. What fun. I will tell you that my home town is Santa Fe, NM. If that tells you where I come from though I do not live there now.