I did get to various restaurants (the city, at least the area we were in, has an amazing number of them), and I got to see the "bat explosion" from the bat bridge: Austin built a bat-friendly bridge, which hosts a huge colony, and they come out of the cracks that have been made or them just after sunset, in very large numbers. apparently they help keep Austin mostly mosquito-free. It was quite an unexpected site.

I'm now at Austin airport, ready tohop off to Houston and then back to Paris. More jet lag to follow...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes