I moved to Austin in late March of 2000 and have lived in a few different places here, so to keep track of stuff I decided to slap up this page. I also started playing with Google Map hacking and put together a page with maps of all the places I've lived, check it out:

Google maps of places I've lived in Austin

After spending the summer in Scottsdale, Arizona I moved back to Austin and moved into Fountainhead Apartments here. Apartment locator services were unable to help me this time, so I looked up as many apartment complexes online in 78704 as I could and called around to line up a place to live upon my arrival.

It wasn't my first choice, but it was available. The place is ok, and will do for a while, but I will definitely find a new pad once this lease is up. I miss my old neighborhood near South Austin Gym, Alamo Draft House movie theater and the Saxon Pub.

I also want to move back to a place with a gas stove too.. electric is for people who don't cook.

I moved into StoneRidge Apartments May 1st of 2004 after plans to move in with my cute Marilyn fell through.. I wanted to still live south, but closer to downtown.

I used to drive by the complex here on my way downtown all the time, and decided to get a tiny studio here. It's a cool location, and I've been pretty happy here, so I've renewed my lease a few times since moving in here.

Studio Virtual Tour 2005/03/17 (Quicktime required)

On August 1st of 2006 I moved into an apartment in the front of the complex over the office. It's a 1-bedroom unit and has side windows in the living room and bedroom with a great view of the downtown Austin skyline! This pad is great, and I finally got around to making a QTVR panorama of the place.

1 Bedroom Virtual Tour 2006/10/22 (Quicktime required)

I moved out of this place at the end of April 2007 to spend the summer in Scottsdale, Arizona with friends. When I returned in the beginning of September of 2007 it was scheduled to be torn down. The Austin city council had voted to rezone the property on November 16, 2006 so a developer could replace it with twice the units, at twice the rent, with some retail shops at street level. I'll always miss my apartment over the office here, it had a great view of the downtown Austin skyline. I loved sitting out front sipping coffee or a beer and watching the traffic go by. :(

After spending 7 months back in Phoenix to work with my friend Erika's company doing web programming and development I was initially planning to move to Casa Grande, Arizona so I could be closer to Skydive Arizona..

At the last minute I changed my mind and decided to take my skydiving buddy Donna up on her offer to rent a room in her house and move back to Austin. I missed my old home away from home, Skydive San Marcos, and my cute ex-girlfriend and old skydiving buddies.

When the Hoover's Online offices moved a couple miles away to the old Butterkrust building on Airport Blvd. I had to drive to work, so I decided to find a new pad with washer/dryer hookups.

I found a cool pad by the Arboretum with laundry hookups here. And my place was in front with the tree cover right off Jollyville Road. I'd hang out on the patio there with a cold pint of Guinness and watch the numerous women running on the jogging path out front after work, woo.

I had accepted a position at Hoover's Online in Austin while still living in Phoenix.. So I searched the apartment sites online, and ended up having an apartment locator lady in Austin set me up at this place sight unseen. It was across the street from my new office, so I walked to work the first 9 months in Austin :)

I didn't even see the apartment until after I had signed the lease and began unloading my Uhaul and moving in. It was a cool "loft" pad, but it didn't have laundry machine hookups..