# 124 Stayed at Cedar Breaks campground in Georgetown near Austin Bat tour boat

We were going to Austin next and we were looking for a campground. I had already been to McKinney Falls in the fall so I thought it would be good to do something different. India had found something called Cedar Breaks on our itinerary somewhere and it was a state park run by the Corps of Engineers. It was one of those really pretty places with a nice lake and it was about a 30-mile trek to Austin. We kind of thought it would be ok because we thought we would have less traffic that way. It seems you can't avoid that traffic in Austin. There didn’t seem to be a rush hour it was just a parking lot all day every day. We stayed there and it was very pretty and thoroughly enjoyed myself. I wanted to go into Austin being the larger type of town and to try to get a handle on this shrill sound. I thought was coming from the turbo so I made sort of a plan to go by and I had called a place that tests injectors and such they said come on by. They did a little troubleshooting for me and they felt as if it were not the turbo but maybe an alternator bearing or possibly an idler pulley. I thought well I guess that’s good but it wasn't exactly what I had expected to hear. I went over to a place that does U-joints because I also suspected that there was a shudder I didn't care for.

I went by the guy's place that the diesel guys suggested. They were closed as it was tax day so maybe he was in trouble with his accountant.

The next day I went down and I was planning on having them do the U-joints. I started talking to him it was around noon or two. He said that it doesn't work as well when we start so late like this that it would be better if I were there real early like 8 a.m. I was a little disappointed but I kind of knew he was right. We could either stay way up there at Cedar Breaks or we can get a little closer at McKinney Falls. I voted to go ahead and move to McKinney Falls. On our last night, we went into Austin to see the bats.

Austin bats

One of the things we wanted to do while we're in Austin is to see the bats emerge. I had heard it happens under a bridge but that's all I knew. We looked into it and they have tours and such or you can just go stand on the bridge if you want. There was a boat ride type thing for like 10 bucks and I thought it was cool because you could go and be on the water and be kind of under the bridge and have a great perspective. When the bats leave in the summer evenings they're at their maximum population it's like a million of them.

The sunset was great and you can see all the people standing on the Congress St bridge waiting for the bats to emerge. We were in a boat. I thought of my sister Darylene because she mentioned she had been on that bridge once

We went out on this little barge boat pontoon boat and saw a cool sunset. Right before the bats left, they sent out a scout bat just one single bat but who noses around decide if it was safe to go. and then eventually all 23 thousand left it was so cool.