i'm an opinion writer and columnist with the san antonio express-news, but that's not important. important here is our author, megan kimball. she's an austin based investigative journalist, author of the 2015 book unprocessed. she's a former executive editor of the texas observer. she writes about housing and urban development for texas monthly, the new york times guardian and, bloomberg, citylab. her latest book, which came out a few days ago, is called city limits inequality and the future america's highways. and it examines the toll that ever expanding urban highways have taken on our communities. and it does so through the prism three texas cities, austin, houston and dallas so please help me welcome our author megan kimple. thank you, gilbert. thank you all for being here. it's really a delight now, megan, you as you point out the book, you were born in austin, you grew up in southern california, and california. and that that area particularly in california, like texas, has a very strong car geographically, big, very spread out. was it during that time period growing up in s