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Nothing is more Austin that this. (Calendar cover screenshot Elarroyo.com)

“Keeping Austin weird” – People are serious about that. Everyone works hard at it.

So if you’re moving to Austin, pack a sense of humor and appreciation of a wide variety of pokes, prods, and punchlines…No, it’s not Chicago, so uncoil those fists and get ready to sit in the shade with a beer….Oh, OK there may be some adult punch on the table, but it’ll lukewarm from the heat.

Mild weather means lots of patios and outdoor places to get on with your life…(Quick before the heat arrives…shortly. Ask the snakes and wild hogs…I guess the last could include motorcycles…)

If you’re near Austin, you’ve gotta boot scoot on over to El Arroyo, a local TexMex place since 1975. Famous for food and smiles:

As El Arroyo says, they are “The Last Queso Stop Before a Bunch of Yoga Studios.” 

You may not be close enough for their take-out food, but some great gift ideas for any occasion during a pandemic era.

By popular demand four books of their sayings have been published along with calendars, greeting cards, magnets, wall prints, teeshirts – oh, just go look at their stuff here. Even toilet paper? (Yes, valuable for so many reasons. HAHA)

Attention writers desperate for popularity and publication: El Arroyo does take sign suggestions (Submissions  here)

Life is tacos.(screenshot elarroyo.com)

Proof grammar lives. But Elvis?(screenshot/ elarroyo.com)

What? What’s el arroyo mean? (Besides great food and laughs)

In the dry SW, those are gullies/ gulches/steep walled rocky creek beds that fill with water after a big rain.

In Latin, it means something else – like man made ditch made looking for gold, but here it means “Watch out.” Central Texas is known for lovely limestone and for seemingly innocent, low water crossings which turn into raging torrents during big rains. Serious death traps and I’m not kidding.

It’s Austin. You know.(screenshot Elarroyo.com)

We take truth over facts. (screenshot/elarroyo.com)

Good plan for surviving. (screenshot/ elarroyo.com)

So if you’re around Austin, your wise arroyo choice is the one the corner of West 5th and Campbell. Sit back and relax – and see what you can see.

Weird happens.

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge.

Never enough laughs around, so enjoy a few more of their past signs:

Universal truth. (screenshot/elarroyo.com)

Who says Austinites don’t know the value of things? (screenshot/elarroyo.com)

Fine food and thoughts that count. (screenshot/elarroyo.com)

Dogs are a fine judge of character. Live up to it. (screenshot/elarroyo.com)