The Things You Remember Driving Around Austin

Today, I made a one-day trip into Austin to visit some long time friends and family friends. It's been 3 years since I've been to Austin, but there's still a lot of familiarity to the city. From College Station to Austin takes about 2 hours, driving on all minor roads...

Between Taylor and Hutto is this intersection (not sure what it is really...) called Norman's Crossing. Everyone has heard of the Urban Legend of the spirits of some murdered children pushing cars away from a bridge. Well, in High School I distinctly remember a group of us driving to Norman's Crossing, putting the car into neutral to see if they rolled away from the bridge. The second part of the urban legend is to put baby powder on the rear of your car, in which finger prints appear. Obviously, this is stupid because bridges are usually crowned and the finger prints are your own...

I also drove past the spot where I flipped over my bike and was bleeding everywhere. Luckily, there were no cars around at the time and we were by a hospital. I definitely remember a nurse wrapping my wounds.

It's also bizarre how your car just drives itself in the town you grew up in and how you associate certain places with people. For instance, Yucca Drive... The Burketts. Taking the back way from my house to The Burketts would yield seeing Kelly Tryce's old white station wagon, and a drive by Caroline Fisher's house just to see if she was outside... I'll admit what everyone once knew, I was definitely into Caroline in high school.

Also, Austin wouldn't be Austin without this:

I remember seeing this car and thinking how cool it would be to see this on the road... it never moved.