Handerpants and Austin Bats

Even as I type this now, I’m wearing my newly acquired “handerpants” that keep the base of my hands toasty warm. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, see my twitter feed...they’re basically underpants for your hands and I bought them while I was on vacation in Austin, TX.

 

Austin’s motto is: Keep Austin Weird. Appropriate, I’d say, because the place is, well...weird. A good weird, though. Cool restaurants and shops. Relatively safe and clean too. But the weirdest part about Austin has got to be the nightly flight of the 1.5 million bats that live under the capital street bridge. I stood on this bridge when dusk fell and watched hundreds of thousands of bats squeekily fly out into the city to go eat their weight in insects...and this happens every night! I’ve never heard of this happening in any other city, ever!

 

The smell of the bats still haunts my nostrils and the lingering memory of my week-long vacation makes me sad because it’s over. Welp, on to other important comedic things in my future. Just thought you should know.