Originally Posted by Britdrinker

Hmmm, I'm wondering if I can guess where you work, based on the angle of the pic. That's the Red Bridge, for sure. Probably Bridgepoint Parkway or thereabouts ... one of those high-falutin' tech firms, I should imagine!

Originally Posted by snowbunny

Yes. It probably was the bridge then. It goes over the Colorado River on Loop 360/Capitol of Texas Highway.

There's an unwritten rule that every street / highway has to have at least two names if not more. That way we can confuse the out-of-towners. ;)

Originally Posted by Britdrinker

Hmmm, I'm wondering if I can guess where you work, based on the angle of the pic. That's the Red Bridge, for sure. Probably Bridgepoint Parkway or thereabouts ... one of those high-falutin' tech firms, I should imagine!

Originally Posted by Scorchio

Close, but no cigar! :D I'm in the Bridgepoint Plaza building, which is the large white building with stepped floors that you can see when heading north on 360, down the hill towards the bridge.

Sorry, Yosser, don't know Bee Caves well at all! I can relate to the taxi driver problem, though. The one and only time I tried using a taxi here, they got lost and took an hour to find my apartment, then couldn't find 6th street. I mean, what sort of Austin taxi driver can't find 6th street?

Back to my high-falutin' tech project, then... ;)

Originally Posted by Britdrinker

I'll be passing by in an hour or so, on my way to Happy Hour at the lake!

Originally Posted by Scorchio

I'm in Austin, too, and very nice it is. Plenty of green areas, and half the time you wouldn't know you're in a city.

Lunchtime at work at the moment, and a chance to play with my new cell phone - I'll point the camera out of my office window for you :)

Now, unless I've completely messed up the attachment stuff, you can just see the arch of the 360/Pennybacker bridge over the trees.

Originally Posted by Celtic_Angel

argh!!! not a slab of highway traffic stores etc in sight....hillbilly!!! :D

Originally Posted by Yosser

couple of weeks ago, I took my wife down to Austin to watch Kenny Chesney (our 6th year wedding anniversary). After the show we stayed at her dads house, because it was dark and we were very drunk I couldn't see anything travelling along in the taxi cab.

The next day I woke up and her dads house was perched on a hill side, completely surrounded by trees, lush grass and baby deers, all you could see was roof tops in amongst the trees.

Driving back to Dallas there was a bike race must of been a couple thousand people on their racers, my wife claimed to of seen Lance Armstrong...perhaps it was as I know he has a house done there.

Anyways its one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen, its up there with the coast road in Victoria (Australia) and Maui (Hawaii). Perfect fresh water streams and creeks.

I know the property is expensive down there but its a little piece of paradise in an otherwise bleak Texas landscape. I wouldn't mind living down there one day.

Originally Posted by Scorchio

Nice...! Give us a wave, then.

Traffic doesn't look awful yet, on the stretch of 360 I can see!

Originally Posted by Jimbo the Bimbo

I have to drive the 360 to and from work everyday and the hours that I work means that there is hardly any traffic at all when i'm on it :)

Originally Posted by snowbunny

grrrrrr ......

I drive nearly the entire length of Mopac at peak hours (kids are in school so can't change the timing). Commute is the worst part of living here.

Originally Posted by Jimbo the Bimbo

Eeeeek! Mopac! My condolences :(