After I had left my job, and before I left Austin, I was trying to sell my condo there. The realtors would give a two or three hour window during which the condo might be shown, and I had to get the dog out of there. So I walked. I must have walked up and down every alleyway between Dean Keaton and 2222, Lamar and the interstate. I got to know the city better in a couple of weeks than I had in the years I'd lived there.