My tiny excursion to Austin, Texas has come to an end, and I'm pleased to report that my endeavors went well and I'm all too glad to expand my American experience; Austin is equivocal to towns like Loughborough or Bath, centered around a university campus where the only ulterior high-rise buildings mainly crop up as hotels. I was pleased to note that Texas isn't necessarily the detached quasi-nation that other Americans have come to view it as. Granted, the architecture is decades old and visibly stagnant, but the culture is far from regressive. I was disappointed not to have more opportunity to explore and search, but such is the life of a student.