A Day at the Lake...

Sunday is a lazy day for most of us. Even myself, boundless energy that I seem to have. Ont his fine Sunday I headed out to Lake Travis. The lake is currently a shadow of its former self as the water levels are around 60 feet lower than their average. Texas has had a pretty bad drought for the past few years and Lake Travis is suffering terribly for it.

But there's a twist! I am the type who lives to be outside of the comfort zone. As most boundaries are just silly anyway. The rather arbitrary nature of social norms has always been a funny thing to me. In the same vein as the very Creator of the universe itself telling you to not masturbate. So we went to a place called Hippie Hollow. A portion of the Lake dating back to the 60's. It actually has some other name for it. But that name is unimportant as nobody refers to it by the name proper. Back in the age of the Culture Shock, those of like minds would congregate here and beat on drum circles or whatever in the nude along the Lake. This is interesting to me because Texas is quite conservative to say the least. The fact that this park has survived for so long is impressive. As there have been many attempts to shut down the lewdness, I am sure.

According to local history. The original owner of that part of Lake Travis leased the land to the county indefinitely under a number of conditions. One being that the clothing optional part of it remained. Hippie Hollow becoming the only "public" area that allows this in the entire state of Texas. Texas is a big place and this is quite unique. With all of the characters that live in Austin and the interesting things to do here. How does one just "go" to the lake? I say, let us make even a day at the lake something out of the ordinary!

And so I went to Hippie Hollow and enjoyed the quiet lake shore. As rocky and uncomfortable as it is. But I must say, it is rather liberating to walk around in the buff. I'll certainly be back! The people are exceptionally friendly and social. Comfortable in their own skin and I admire anyone with that trait. A little confidence can get you a very long ways and it is a lesson that a lot of us have a hard time learning. Fake it till you make it as it is said.