 | Streetwise Austin Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Austin, Texas - Folding pocket size travel map by Streetwise Maps
Buy used from: $69.47 Invaluable for finding your way around Austin - which encompasses a huge amount of area, highways and streets.
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 | Lonely Planet Austin, San Antonio & the Hill Country by Sara Benson
Buy used from: $1.96 We used this book before we moved to the Texas Hill Country and during our first year living here. The Texas Hill Country is vast and this book will help weed out the wannabe's and focus on the truly authentic hill country treasures.
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 | University of Texas Fitted Hat (Burnt Orange)
Buy new: $18.95 Burnt Orange is everywhere in Austin and the Texas Hill Country. Loud and proud it's worn on heads, backs, and especially displayed on trucks and cars.
Get your own little bit of "burnt orange."
Hook 'em Horns!
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 | Pathfinder Complete Guide to Mountain Biking Austin and San Antonio and Central Texas and The Texas Hill Country by J. H. Snowden
Buy used from: $14.91 We use this book to find new places to ride our mountain bikes.
The book summarizes the "good" the "bad" and the "ugly" about each location to make choosing your next ride easier.
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 | Keep Austin Weird: A Guide to the Odd Side of Town by Red Wassenich
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $11.00 In 2000, Austin native Red Wassenich accidentally invented the phrase "Keep Austin Weird." It has since become the unofficial city motto. This terrific book proudly proclaims and pinpoints the oddities that make Austin weird, with no apologies.
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 | 50 Fabulous Places to Retire in America
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $0.91 Along the same lines as 50 Fabulous places to Raise Your Family.
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 | 50 Fabulous Places to Raise Your Family by Kathleen Shaputis
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $0.34 Great book for helping you decide what your criteria for a great life really is.
Once you figure that out, you may find that where you are geographically doesn't mesh.
It worked for me. Our family moved from gloomy Seattle (where we'd lived for 15 years) to sunny Austin.
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 | Places Rated Almanac: The Classic Guide for Finding Your Best Places to Live in America by David Savageau
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $14.49 Make a relocation decision based on facts, not opinions or perceptions. This book helped me to "see the truth" about some of the places I dreamed of moving to...We finally ended up in Austin, with no surprises.
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 | The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $4.08 If you want to live in the Hill Country, you'll have to commute into Austin for an income, unless you have that all figured out.
Tim Ferriss does. Follow his lead and figure out how to become your own boss, or put a plan in place to work from home and deliver more results in less time than you ever dreamed.
This book will inspire you to get serious about what's important in your life.
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