Austin rocks, and #sxswsa is loving it
By Ivo Vegter. Filed in sxswsa |Tags: andy hadfield, Austin, Eve Dmochowska, Heather Ford, Jack Kruger, sxsw, sxswsa, texas, travelogue
South Africans out on the town for sight-seeing, food and music. Austin is a lively town, with great music and excellent food. And horses.



























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Wednesday, March 17th 2010 at 16:46 |
I’m glad that y’all got a chance to meet Leslie. He is well-loved in Austin, and even has a Leslie magnetic dress up set available for sale at a few places around town. He runs for mayor every election cycle, and gets a respectable number of votes. Several months back, he was seriously injured (I’m not sure if he was attacked as speculated, or had a stroke, or what happened) and in the hospital for several months. The city rallied around him. I’m glad to see he appears to be back to how he was before being in the hospital.