Really you can't go wrong in Austin. There is, of course, the typical curse of American Franchiserrhea, but it is important to Austinauts to maintain their freaky quirkiness, even though that cachet is co-opted by business and abstracted into a quiesent pastiche version and yes, I am just, how you say, talking out my ass.
I was saying- if you get in any busy area like Guadalupe around UT or downtown, parts of Lamar or, well, lots of places, you don't need a list- you'll see a some junk but you'll find the interesting places, because they're there. There are tons of bookstores and coffee shops and dive bars and restaurants and oddball knick-knack shops, all that. And the hill country really is specifically beautiful. Little limestone cliffs and rolling terrain covered with Texas live oaks, bur oaks, cedar elms, and the junipers they call "cedar" (which incidentally, if you have allergies, bring some fucking drugs, the junipers really pound some people). This time of year it's usually warm in the day, like in the 70s or even 80s, and cool at night. Very pleasant if it's not flooding.
I think you'll like it. |
