{"id":140,"date":"2006-02-21T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T19:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=140"},"modified":"2006-02-21T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T19:29:25","slug":"groovin-at-the-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Groovin&#8217; at the Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pecan Grove RV Park is a nearly legendary place in Austin these days.  It has been described to me as &#8220;the place the hippies used to hang out,&#8221; but now it is a funky oasis in the midst of the town that wants to keep itself weird.  (That&#8217;s what the t-shirts say: Keep Austin Weird.)<\/p>\n<p>There are at least a dozen Airstreams here, and several Avions as well.  Most of the residents seem permanent, or at least seasonal, and there&#8217;s a very friendly vibe about the place.  I am sure we will like being here, especially now that the weather has improved. <\/p>\n<p>I have done some more research on the bike thing, and it seems clear that we are safe with a bike rack \/ receiver hitch mount on the rear.  Our loaded weight will be well within what the chassis can withstand, and really it won&#8217;t be much more than many people put in their bumper storage compartments.<\/p>\n<p>Some people go a bit further with their frame mounted equipment.  Here&#8217;s one I spotted recently.  I wonder if the owner has trouble towing it in traffic?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Austin bumper mount.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Austin%20bumper%20mount.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" \/><br \/>\n<em>And you were worried about a bike rack?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we&#8217;re going to look up an old friend of mine who relocated here years ago, and of course in the evening we will have dinner at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltlickbbq.com\" target=\"_blank\">Salt Lick BBQ<\/a> with a gang of Airstreamers.  By the way, the Salt Lick calls itself &#8220;The last bit of Texas in Austin.&#8221;  Sounds promising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pecan Grove RV Park is a nearly legendary place in Austin these days. It has been described to me as &#8220;the place the hippies used to hang out,&#8221; but now it is a funky oasis in the midst of the town that wants to keep itself weird. (That&#8217;s what the t-shirts say: Keep Austin Weird.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}