Sadly, no.

When we cut out Big Thicket National Preserve, we also had to cut out Austin. I’ve only heard great things about the city, and the original roadtrip plan had us making a special New Years Eve stop there (it’s pretty rare for us to “schedule” any time in a city on our trip, so that’s definitely a compliment). And the Austin guidebook we got at the library prior to the trip certainly highly recommended visiting the Capitol area. But in the end, we just didn’t have the time to make it happen.

–By the way, I don’t want to give the impression that we didn’t enjoy the trip – we did.