Native Texan living and working in Oklahoma. I was born and raised in Houston, and I also lived in the Metroplex for 6 years. I fell in love with Austin and the surrounding area as a teenager, right after I bought my first car and my friends and I piled in and drove there late one night in the fall of 1977. The music scene, Sixth Street, the night life, the University of Texas campus, the friendly faces, the warm Texas weather, skinny-dipping in Lake Travis and Marble Falls, rafting on the Guadalupe River...I love burnt orange.