The Interstate-35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio is 75 miles of booming suburbia, with tens of thousands of new Texans settling in between the two growing cities.
There isn’t much scenery on the drive, but there is the “World’s Largest Convenience Store” at Exit 191, a place called Buc-ee’s that features 120 gasoline pumps.
There are hopes for a rail project to connect Austin and San Antonio, so commuters wouldn’t have to spend as much time driving on I-35.
That would have been useful to Kyle Anderson a year ago.
He spent his rookie season going back and forth between San Antonio and the Spurs’ D-League affiliate in Austin, getting familiar with every highway exit in between.