Enter Through the Gift Shop
Astute Oh Those Hollands! readers may have already discovered this, but we are incredibly excited to announce the Grand Opening of the official OTH Gift Shop! Featuring some of our favorite travel photographs over the years including our recent adventures, these items make the perfect gift for your friends and loved ones. And, of course, […]
Halloween is a BOO-tiful Time in NOLA đź‘»
We’ve been only lucky enough to celebrate my favorite holiday in New Orleans once, but it is most definitely on our short list to go back. One of our dreams is in fact to walk/ride in the Krewe of Boo Halloween parade one day! It’s truly amazing and I say that having been to Mardi […]
That’s Top Notch, Baby!
Birthed one year after I was born (!!), Top Notch Burger in Austin, Texas is a true institution. Most famous for its starring roll in Dazed and Confused, it’s embraced its, now very retro, 70’s design. It even has retained their car hop service resisting the “pave over the parking lot” ethos that so many […]
Sweet Sophia
Over of the toughest things about being on the road and our current lifestyle is missing family and friends. Happy Hour zooms help, but of course there’s no replacing face to face, hug to hug so we’ll take any and all opportunity to get back together when we can. This past Thanksgiving when we were […]
My Holy Water
They say you’ll know you’re a plunger if after your first plunge, you emerge red skinned, goose bumped with teeth chattering, and immediately want to do it again. Hi. I’m Anne. And I’m a Cold Plunger. After hearing so much buzz about cold plunging, reading Katherine May in How to Winter, watching the Bad Sisters […]
Let’s Go to a Fair!
We shared some of the incredible rodeo photos Bill captured at Manassa, Colorado’s two-day Pioneer Days. But in addition to the rodeo and demolition derby, they also have a little carnival action that night. Since it’s starting to get into Spring Fair Season™, we thought this little selection might get you in the mood. In […]
It’s a Sign
You’ve probably heard the saying “Keep Austin Weird”, which we definitely should keep doing, but I’m going to propose another unofficial motto, “Keep Austin Lit”. No, not in the 420, Mary Jane way (my nose has let me know that there’s plenty of that already), but in a neon sign way. We’re not talking about […]
Happy Mardi Gras, Y’all!​
Fat Tuesday is officially TODAY so we thought we’d celebrate the occasion with some of the festive and fun decorations we saw last month before we headed out ahead of the big snowstorm that hit the southern town. While a little snow doesn’t faze us too much, New Orleans is wholly unprepared for something which […]
Get Your Ass to Creede
There are many, many reasons to love Colorado and the annual Donkey Dash in the high altitude mountain town of Creede is one of them. Every Summer the town’s population swells (during Winter the donkeys would likely outweigh the number of residents!) with spectators to watch runners and their donkeys climb the mountains through the […]
Telluride Balloon Fest
There are very few things that can make me get up on a Saturday morning (ok, any morning) at o’dark thirty on a 40 degree morning in Telluride in JUNE, but the promise of several hot air balloons lit up and cascading over the mountain valley town would be one of them. Oh, that and […]
Christmas in New Orleans
Many of you may know New Orleans is our soul city. We met here for one of our first dates while living in different cities, and it’s where we tied the knot back in 2001 (the weekend following 9/11) on what would have been my late parents 39th wedding anniversary. We’ve visited several times over […]
Houston We Have (Artistic) Liftoff
Since we were coming down to Texas for the total eclipse, we knew there were some places we wanted to visit. Houston wasn’t one of them (ha ha!), but alas we found ourselves there anyway thanks to the annual Art Car Parade. Unfortunately it was looong drive from Waco where our home was parked AND […]
Total Eclipse of Our Hearts
We knew it was a gamble, and we promised ourselves we wouldn’t be disappointed, but of course, we secretly held out hope that the dire news delivered by faux jovial meteorologists in the DFW area that cloudy skies would steal the show, would be wrong. And “shockingly”, they were! The morning clouds slowly dissipated and […]
Losing our dear Sadie
We’d just adopted kittens Frankie & Willow and were not looking for a 3rd. Except for Anne who feels 5 is maybe, possibly just enough. We first met Sadie during a shelter event at a local brewery. She was pretty thin and frankly looking a bit worn from nursing her first litter and it was […]