I've only ever driven through that part of TX, but I did like the mix of grassland and giant liveoak that I saw there. Of the thirty something states I've driven in, that bit of Texas always struck me as one of the prettier kinds of geography. In Austin, it wasn't hard to be out and about until ten or eleven in the morning. It was the summer hours of three to six pm that definitely required some AC. I loved the long spring and fall seasons. I had chosen to live in Austin, and I remember it fondly.
