"I'll tell you what I love about the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. The river runs right past it and they have a wonderful restaurant down at the bottom level. People go there just to watch the bats fly by. You get this wonderful, elegant dinner and watch bats fly all over the place. The real bat colony is under the Congress Avenue Bridge, and it's one of the biggest colonies of bats anywhere. Up in Fredericksburg, 70 miles west of Austin, very close to my home, there's a place called the Bat Tunnel. It's an old railway tunnel where the bats love to hang. They fly over my ranch all the time. We used to have trouble with them coming down our chimney and flapping around and squeaking in the middle of the night. But to see masses of them in flight is an extraordinary thing."

DINNER
"I like Mexican food. There's real Mexican at Fonda San Miguel, if you want something elegant. It's wonderful for seafood, chicken, and molé enchiladas, beautifully prepared. It has an Old World sort of feeling. But my husband and me, our tastes run to what's fun and quick. Local hangouts, like Matt's Famous El Rancho. It's a real cultural experience and they probably have the best margaritas in town."

NIGHTLIFE
"Austin has an incredible music scene, and I love the Broken Spoke. It's a honky-tonk on South Lamar. It's Texas Texas. You can go to the Paramount Theatre, an old theater right on Congress Avenue, the street that goes to the capitol. The Paramount Theatre is so beautiful and intimate. I saw Leo Kottke there. It's grand and was restored wonderfully. I love La Zona Rosa, a bar with live music. The thing I like about Austin is its unpredictability. On Sixth Street, you can walk from one bar to the next. I'm not a big drinker, but that's something you can do. Just let the night take you, and see what happens."

SATURDAY