Austin Texas - Blogs & Blog Posts

Texas Underground: cave exploring by Rushmonkeys on Nov 5, 2009Caving...community...conservation...

Happy Halloween!! by Rushmonkeys on Oct 30, 2009Just a silly collage of my years in costume...

More monkey blogging by Rushmonkeys on Oct 1, 2009All of us here at rushmonkeys love what we do! But, there is so more to each of us than ‘bawlzee’ attitudes and life in the fast lane. In order to express these other genuine facets of ourselves we are creating our own individual blogs w...

Hang gliding - Texas, USA part. 1 by Rushmonkeys on Aug 29, 2009So far, hang gliding has been the most spiritual sport we have done. In hang gliding you do not fall 120 miles per hour and you don’t surf the air at crazy speeds. You actually fly a horizontal path…just like a bird. And I thought jumping...

Vertigo Hats Gave Me Balance by This Eclectic Life on Aug 13, 2009I was in Austin, Texas without a hat! I confess that I felt nekkid — I was out of balance. From the window of our fourth floor (haunted) room at the Driskill, we could see a hat shop called “Vertigo.” We took a break from our gho...

Ghost Hunt at The Driskill Hotel. Part 2. by This Eclectic Life on Aug 12, 2009We continued traipsing through the halls of the Driskill in our search for some kind of ghostly presence. In the bar, the leering steer hanging on the wall was a bit frightening. I’m not fond of hanging dead critters on the wall, but then I g...

Ghost Hunt at The Driskill Hotel. Part 1. by This Eclectic Life on Aug 11, 2009They told me our room was a “haunted room.” Supposedly the Driskill Hotel has a lot of ghosts walking its hallways. We went to Austin, Texas to try to see one. Actually, we went to see the bat colony take flight from under the Congress...