{"id":306,"date":"2007-10-22T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2007-10-22T02:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T02:12:00","slug":"ibm-uptown-classic-10k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/2007\/10\/ibm-uptown-classic-10k\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends in town 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived at the <a href=\"http:\/\/makerfaire.com\/austin\/2007\/\">Austin Maker Faire<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.travis.tx.us\/exposition%5Fcenter\/\">Travis County Exposition Center<\/a> at about 9 AM for setup. Within about 1 1\/2 hours we had put together three tables, and decorated them. We positioned the big car out front.<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/images\/MakerFaireSetup1_20071019.jpg\"\/><\/center>We came back home for lunch. On the way back home from Maker Faire I phoned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.segcity.com\/\">SegCity<\/a> and made a  reservation  for a tour of Austin on Segway HTs. At 2:30 we arrived at SegCity, met the 6 other people taking the tour, and our guide, Alexa. We saw a safety video, took a short course on the unit (balancing, turning in place, and negotiating a figure eight around two cones) then we were off on the tour &#8211; whee!. For the next 2 or more hours we toured downtown Austin including the City Hall, and the Texas Capital.<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/images\/SegwayTour1_20071019.jpg\"\/><\/center>By the end we were exhausted especially Kathy who had a small spill on the Segway. [Also maybe we should have remembered that for the next two days we&#8217;d be on our feet about 8 hours each day &#8211; oops] But tired legs didn&#8217;t stop us from enjoying BBQ at <a href=\"http:\/\/rudysbbq.com\/\">Rudy&#8217;s<\/a><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rudysbbq.com\/images\/location_austin_south.gif\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived at the Austin Maker Faire at the Travis County Exposition Center at about 9 AM for setup. Within about 1 1\/2 hours we had put together three tables, and decorated them. We positioned the big car out front.We came back home for lunch. On the way back home from Maker Faire I phoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}