Whose fingers? Chronicle readers say: County Line

It's a comforting place.

Best Barbecue 2000 according to the Austin Chronicle. The envelope please. The Salt Lick.

The Salt Lick is where Sammy Allred got in trouble for parking his band truck in the way of the owners parking spot or something. I think they called the cops or something. Sammy Allread is on the famous morning Sam and Bob Show and Sanny is orneriest talk show guy you�ll ever run into. If you call in, get ready to get your head bitten off. It�s in a way out of the way country road out by Dripping Springs or Blanco somewhere. I hear it�s good. I almost went there once. County Line (been there), Ruby�s HHBQ and Rudy�s (been there too) got runner up. Honorable mention: Sam�s, Stubbs, and Green Mesquite (done that too). My vote would have to be a toss up between the County Line, Rudy�s, and the Green Mesquite. Green Mesquite gets the most hip points, Rudy�s is highest on the bubbaland pickup index, and County Line is off the trendy chart somewhere. If you came to Austin and asked to go out to a barbecue, I�d probably take you to the Iron Works down by the convention center or to the County Line if I wanted to impress you. County Line has a great view of the Hill Country and the sunset. It�s second place to the Oasis on the best-place-catch-a-sunset index. Then there�s Pokey Joes for mallbiance. I�m talking about the one at the Arboretum. I�m sure there are lots more great barbecue places in Austin.

If that's REAL aboretum, I'm for that. You can walk off the too-much-food you just stuffed in and weren't hungry for but it was there and was too good to leave. Barbecue here tends to be Korean or Japanese style. Teriyaki sauce is the accompaniment as well as the marinade. In the Parker Ranch area at Kamuela in the middle of the Island, standard mainland BBQ is served and a bath is needed thereafter. Ono grinds!

Infospace.com says Kamuela has 39 restaurants. Ono grinds? Yoko Ono? Translate this two word exclamatory sentence. I'm a slow catcher on-er sometimes. Careful when you cross Popoo Gulch.

Wow! 39?! It is not all that big but is a bedroom community for the big hotels on the coast. Ono grinds is localese for delicious food (ono=delicious in Hawaiian, and grinds is what your teeth do to the delicious food) PooPoo Gulch or have you found an obscure place in the island I have not heard about...

Yep, it was on the Infospace map. It's payback for all those great Austin tips you been putting out. Some payback, huh?

Tell me! Oh well, we do what we can... Did they feel threatened or especially clever that day?! Hmmm... I'll have to check their map then mine. Too funny!

You'll have to pay poopoo or whatever it was called a personal view and let us know how spectacular this stream rushing out of the volvanoes actually is. Or maybe I'm overhyping it?

I'll take along my digital camera and post it so you can see, too. We also have Peepee Falls...and, no, it is pronounced Pay-a Pay-a Falls. I have already posted a picture of the Pu'u (POO-oo) Sounds very excretory over here, doesn't it?!

Sure does, poobear.

Got some pix of the waves rolling into Puhi bay last evening in the area of the Hilo Yacht club and a distant one of me...posted in Travel / Hawaii