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Now that we have started to pack and dismantle the soon to be former home, we find ourselves reaching for our camping equipment so we can have a seat and have a meal.

Feels funny to have a picnic in the middle of our dinning area. Makes us giddy and giggly.
But at the same time, packing and emptying this house that we have loved, brings a sense of closure. A sense that we are leaving on a good note, when this place, Austin, TX is slightly past its best days, and we leave on the dawn of a new phase in Austin that we have been feeling coming, and we do not like it.

This hill used to be a great spot to hike and catch the sunset. No more.

We have been hiding in South Austin, hoping to escape the sprawling Disneyfication of the city. But now, the wave of gentrification and hypeification is inching closer and closer. Three to five years from now, it will be all gone into a sea of strip malls, Starbucks, Home Depots, Wal Marts and franchise restaurants, and the local "so-called-weird" businesses.

This is where every spring I would come in search of photographs of wildflowers. No more.

Hopefully by then, we will be settled on a new found paradise, and I will make sure to keep it quiet, because as the song says:

"Call a place paradise
kiss it good bye"

This idyllic patch of Texas nature is no more. Now you can find in in this spot a precious strip mall.