Deep in the heart of TEXAS!

This is my city. Austin Texas.

Beautiful isn't it? I've been living in Georgia since September 09. The first year I was here I hate to say it but... I didn't miss Texas. The sweltering summers where it was 110 degrees in the shade. Where traffic on I-35 would hold you up for an hour and a half bumper to bumper on a drive that should take 20 minutes. And it was where I grew up all I knew. I would drive to the same places I always had. As far south as Buda [ "b-YOU-da" as we call it]  And as far north as Round Rock. That  hour drive stretch was home. It's where family, friends and thoughts lived. And I was ready for a change.

In February of 2009 my husband Stefan joined the United States Army. Began basic training and A.I.T [ advanced individual training ] After he finished with the we got our first Duty Station orders. 

                                                              Dun dun dun!

To Fort Stewart Georgia.

Georgia isn't really all that different from Texas.

                                                              GASP!!! Did I really just say that!

Yes I did there's a few things that are different...

• Good: It is BEAUTIFUL with lots of pine trees and beaches.
• Bad: The pines have LOTS and by lots I mean CLOUDS of pollen.
• Good: It has daily Thunderstorms in the summer that I love.
• Bad: Bugs! And lots of them way more and a lot more annoying ones then Texas.
• Good:The ocean/beach is only an hours drive away.
• Bad: It smells! lol it does there's a lot of swamps, chemical and for lack of a better word poop plants around here. I can't say parts of Texas aren't the same ahem..HOUSTON!
• Good: The army base it's self is a great and convenient place to get things done. most of the time.
• Bad: There's no REAL salsa or Mexican food!
• Good: But there is great traditional down home southern food. Heck Paula Deen's restaurant is run 30 minutes away in Savannah.
• Bad: The only malls and fun stuff is in Savannah.
• Good: Georgia is smaller then Texas [DUH anyone who's gone to first grade knows that] But.....It's a good thing we are a two hour drive away from Jacksonville Florida and about the same from beautiful Hilton Head Island in South Carolina .

Other wise aside from more wet humidity the climate is about the same as Texas. Every place you go is going to have the good and the bad. However I do really miss Texas because it IS where I grew up it is where I'm from I do miss my friends and family, I miss those hot lazy summers a little bit I miss watching the bats come out of the south congress and round rock bridges I miss family being so close it was suffocating. I miss the food and all the live music venues this sweet sometimes sickly smell of 6th street. The thousands of pastures of cows and horses where the sunsets in the Texas lakes and hill country and make you cry at their beauty. I miss Texas but I will have plenty of chances to return...And when I do I will take advantage of my time there and enjoy every minute of it.

"I hear the wind across the plain 

A sound so strong - that calls my name 

It's wild like the river - it's warm like the sun 

Ya it's here - this is where I belong 

Under the starry skies - where eagles have flown 

This place is paradise - it's the place I call home 

The moon on the mountains 

The whisper through the trees 

The waves on the water 

Let nothing come between this and me 

Cuz everything I want - is everything that's here 

And when when we're all together - there's nothing to fear 

And wherever I wander - the one thing I've learned 

It's to here - I will always....always return "

                                                                              -Bryan Adams