Why I love Austin

Enormous water and iced tea glasses. Just to give you a sense of scale, every time the waiter refilled John's tea, it half-emptied the pitcher. And you get unlimited refills for $1.75. Suck that, NYC.

This is at Polvo's, which we love. The dark salsa is made from smoked peppers, and I could eat it like gazpacho. And I have.

It was in the mid-nineties, but we ate outside anyway. Because it was a dry heat.