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A Texas man is following in a family tradition with his own "great big adventure" riding on horseback from Austin, Texas to Seattle, Wash.

Cyril Bertheau joined "Fox & Friends" Tuesday to discuss where the idea to travel by horse came.

"It's a family tradition for each one of the oldest sons of my family on my dad's side, the Bertheau, to do a great big adventure. And it's kind of a rite of passage, if you will," Bertheau said.

"So my great-grandfather started it, and then my grandfather, then my dad, and then now it's me. So I combined that with my love for horses and horsemanship that I've been riding for years and just went for it."

Bertheau quit a six-figure tech job to prepare for his adventure, which he plans to do in 100 days. He also bought his horse Shiok on Craigslist ahead of the trip.

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"[The employers] did say unlimited PTO, but no, I quit my job and just went full all in and started training and started preparing. And now I'm making the big leap."

On Sunday, the horserider had a sendoff at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. He plans to ride through New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho before arriving in Seattle where he will stay for about a week before making the trip home.

Pulling from his passions, Bertheau chose to ride horses since he had been riding since he was little. His father, who is from Holland, chose a different adventure for his "rite of passage."

In 1984, Bertheau's father Eric journeyed around the world for three years which was inspired by his father's travels and exotic postcards. He traveled through a variety of different transportation methods, seeing regions in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia and the U.S.

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"I took a backpack and asked my mother to bring me to a certain point, not far from home on the way to a job," Eric told FOX 7 Austin. "She put me there, and I put up my thumb, and that's how my trip started."

Since beginning his journey earlier this week, Bertheau has already endured some wild experiences.

"I had ridden through some muddy paths and some rocks had gone into [Shiok's] hooves. So I hopped off and started taking the rocks out and I slipped and fell on him, which spooked him a little bit. And then as I'm trying to reach back to get him, it spooked him even more. And I couldn't reach the reins in time. And he just took off," Bertheau said.

"So I started running down the street and I see this Mini Cooper come up and this lady comes out says, 'Hop in. My husband's going to drive you.' And so we run down and I just opened the door and stopped my horse."

Bertheau shared his optimism and excitement for the journey, specifically how he hopes to learn more about his country and the people that live across the U.S.

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"I see this as a challenge. Mental, physical, spiritual," Bertheau explained. "So I think I'm going to learn about myself. I think I'm going to learn about the country I live in, the people I live with. I'm going to have what seems like insurmountable challenges ahead, and I'm just going to be ready to face them."

"I think people go to university and I sort of take this as the university of life. I'm just going to put myself in tough spots and I think I'll be a better man afterwards."

Bertheau's journey can be found @2raw2ride on Instagram and TikTok.

Madeline Coggins is a Digital Production Assistant on the Fox News flash team with Fox News Digital.

A new seafood and cocktail restaurant, Bill’s Oyster, is opening in downtown Austin this week. The 205 W. Third Street restaurant and lounge will debut on Friday, May 5.

The restaurant’s raw bar includes oysters from the East and Gulf coasts; yellowfin tuna tartare with lime, black garlic molasses, and avocado mousse; jumbo lump crab cocktail with mustard sauce, cocktail sauce, and saltines; sea urchin with scrambled eggs and trout roe; littleneck clams with michelada vinaigrette and tajin; and seared scallop with corn custard and pickled Fresno peppers. There are also two seafood tower options: the Lavaca with oysters, shrimp, clams, lump crab, tuna tartare, and king crab; and the Colorado with oysters, shrimp, lump crab, and clams.

Bill’s dinner plates include steak tartare with chateaubriand, hazelnut, black truffle, and quail egg; jumbo lump crab cake with remoulade and grilled lemon; a large lobster roll with tarragon aioli, and fries; a brisket and short rib burger with pickled okra, cheese, and fries; mozzarella stix with caviar, horseradish, and vodka creme fraiche; and seared red snapper with golden tomato vinaigrette and fines herbes.

The cocktail menu at Bill’s offers a selection of classic and house drinks, along with variations on the negroni and martini. Of the latter, there’s the Siberia (Ford’s gin, basil eau de vie, Carpano Bianco vermouth, black pepper mist, saline, and a lemon twist), and the Dangerous Curves (with Cascahuin Blanco tequila, Dolin dry vermouth, a Rum Fire mist, lime oil, sweety drop pepper, and a black salt rim). Negronis include ones made with Nikka gin, Cocchi Torino and Carpano Bianco vermouths, Campari, and lemon and orange twists.

Other classics include Hurricanes, Death in the Afternoons, and French 75s. Then there are local beers and wines.

The space is designed to evoke the spirit of old New Orleans with natural woods, custom jade-toned tile work, and antique finishes. The restaurant’s interior includes a bar, a banquette, and an outdoor patio space.

Bill’s co-founders are Stewart Jarmon and executive chef Daniel Berg. Jarmon is a lifelong Austinite and graduate of St. Edward’s University and the Escuela de Gastronomía Mexicana in Mexico City. A project manager by trade, this is Jarmon’s first hospitality project.

Berg is a native New Yorker who graduated from the French Culinary Institute in New York City and La Scuola Di Cucina in Colorno, Italy. He previously worked at a number of high-profile restaurants in New York City, including the now-closed one-Michelin-starred restaurant A Voce and the three-Michelin-starred restaurant Daniel. In 2016, he opened his first restaurant, Yves, with partners Matt Abramcyk and Akiva Elstein. In 2018, Berg moved to Houston to work with his brother Benjamin at Berg Hospitality.

Bill’s Oyster will be open for dinner seven days a week from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., for walk-ins only. Lunch and weekend brunch services will be added in the coming weeks.

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A new hot pot restaurant boasting all-you-can-eat ingredients opened in Austin this spring. Soupleaf Hot Pot, found at 6929 Airport Boulevard in the Highland neighborhood, opened on April 24.

The restaurant focuses on Chinese-style hot pot, with soup bases such as the spicy Chinese mala, a vegetable, and tomato. Then there are the all-you-can-eat ingredients available from the buffet ranging from vegetables to noodles, to fish balls. And then meats and seafood are available at additional a la carte prices. Those include brisket, pork belly, New Zealand lamb, clams, shrimp paste, scallops, and much more.

Lunch is $18.99 per person and dinner is $23.99. There are separate prices for children between the ages of four to 10 who either have their own pots or are sharing pots. Currently, the restaurant is operating through reservations only online reservations only through Monday, May 15, with a 25 percent discount available during that time

Soupleaf co-owners are siblings Nelson Lin, Nicole Lin, Nick Lin, and their mother Jin Lin. They announced their intention to open their independent restaurant back in early 2022. They ran several San Diego Chinese restaurants before moving to Austin.

Soupleaf is found in the same shopping plaza as 99 Ranch, Sazan Ramen, Kura Revolving Sushi Bar, and other related restaurants.

Soupleaf’s hours are from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and then from 5 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 11 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday; and then from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.

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Students at Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders walked out of class Tuesday in a show of support for reproductive rights and to mark the one-year anniversary of the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the consequential ruling last year that effectively overturned the national right to an abortion.

As part of the demonstration, students called on state lawmakers to listen to young people's voices and heed their recommendations when proposing bills that will affect them.

The students gathered on the school’s front steps to listen to speeches from their peers, including junior Lily Wilson, who said she wants lawmakers to incorporate proven analysis into their proposals and not just political rhetoric.

“I am tired of having the same conversations and repeating myself over and over again,” Wilson said. “We are all tired of our lawmakers ignoring the facts. Facts are true whether you ignore them or not.”

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Some students wore green, a color that alludes to reproductive rights movements in Latin America. They walked around the school chanting: “Our rights are under attack. What do we do? Stand up, fight back.”

Nicole Perry, a junior with the school’s chapter of No Place For Hate, an Anti-Defamation League initiative, said students wanted to do something to mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision.

“This was important to remind people the urgency is still there,” Perry said.

In its Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court on June 24 ruled that the Constitution didn’t reserve a right to an abortion, essentially overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and returning abortion regulation to states.

At that time, students at the Ann Richards school also held a walkout, said Feyi Oni, a junior and member of No Place For Hate.

“This is still an ongoing problem,” Oni said. “I don’t think anybody should be making rules about what to do with our bodies.”

During their demonstration Tuesday, students called out their frustrations with lawmakers. During this year’s legislative session, lawmakers have spent significant time discussing classroom issues and working on bills that narrow how teachers can discuss topics related to sex and gender.

Texas lawmakers have proposed several bills that would place limits on the topics a teacher can discuss with students. Senate Bill 8 by Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, would prohibit districts from instructing students on gender and sexual orientation. SB 165 from Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, would require districts to get parental consent before teaching content with violence, profanity, nudity or sexuality.

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However, Oni said that students need to feel comfortable talking about reproductive issues in the classroom. She worries students who don’t have access to sex education in school might go to peers searching for answers and possibly get incorrect or damaging information.

“Students shouldn’t have to resort to those sort of methods,” Oni said. “They should have an open forum.”

Because teachers are confined to a narrow set of topics on reproductive health, students often want more information, said Iris Nicholson, a sophomore who helped organize the student demonstration.

“There was a lot of questions that went unanswered,” Nicholson said.

Nicholson said she is perplexed by legislative proposals to prohibit teachers from talking about gender in classrooms because an adult’s marital status or preferred pronouns are often part of standard introductions, she said.

“How would you introduce people?” Nicholson said.

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Perry said lawmakers shouldn't seek to restrict in-school talk about reproductive health because having a better understanding of the human body helps people make safer choices.

“The classroom is really where people go to learn,” Perry said. “Education is an equalizer. We’re hurting people’s opportunities to get a level playing field.”

The school helped the students coordinate the walkout and assisted with any safety concerns, interim Principal Ramona Trevino said.

“This is the leadership academic,” Trevino said. “We really want them to exercise their voice.”

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin City council Thursday approved a resolution from council member Chito Vela directing the Watershed Protection, Austin Resource Recovery, and the Parks and Recreation departments to quickly clear creek beds of vegetative debris.

The resolution is in response to the more than 30 homes that were flooded in north Austin after the April 20 storm. Vegetative debris, such as dead trees, clogged a storm culvert in Little Walnut Creek, leading to heavy flooding in the area that damaged homes.

Those homes are in Vela’s district. He met with frustrated homeowners six days after the storm who said the flooding could have been prevented.

Ryan Albright, a homeowner in the area who had two feet of water in his home, said he and his neighbors called 311 multiple times to warn of the debris in the creek bed and the potential of flooding.

“We were informed that watershed relies on 311 requests to identify issues. We had already done that,” Albright explained.

Albright said vegetative debris from the winter storm built up around the creek bed. The resolution authored by Vela said the flooding was “exacerbated by additional damage and vegetation debris resulting from” the winter storm in late January and early February.

The resolution would also provide some type of financial aid for the homeowners. The resolution specifically mentions federal dollars that were given to Texas after the winter storm in late January and early February. Multiple tree limbs were broken because of that storm and neighbors say it’s what led to the storm culvert being clogged.

Council member Vela said of his resolution, “My resolution calls for both proactive and reactive action from the City. We must assist those affected by the Mearns Meadow flooding in seeking reimbursement, and we must also take precautions to prevent this from happening again.”

Albright estimates he received $10,000 of damage in his backyard and another $80,000 of damage to the interior of his home. His house is “uninhabitable” right now, with no floors, restrooms, or a kitchen. He and his wife are living in an Air BNB temporarily until the house can be fixed. Their flood policy does not cover the backyard damages or the temporary living expenses, Albright explained.

“The aid that is in there is necessary,” Albright said of the resolution.