The weather was really nice when we were there, cool but not cold. We ate outside at one place along the sidewalk, every 5 minutes someone would walk up and ask for money. We were approached a lot just walking around, keep in mind the day we were there we walked about 10 miles all over the place. I never felt it was a problem other than being a buzz kill.
Also the Starbucks was a homeless shelter, the bathrooms were destroyed and the employees seemed to had given up on trying to make them resemble anything usable.
We ducked in to use the bathrooms and left not using them, the place was full of people obviously camping out in there. We went to a little coffee shop, purchased some coffee and snacks then used their bathrooms which were unisex and well, it was kind of weird to be taking a piss in a stall next to a woman tending to her kids. The bathrooms in many places in Ireland were unisex too except everyone had a private room/all then there was a general washing area with sinks. It just seemed weird to re-purpose a conventional bathroom with stalls that are not very private to a unisex one. I could care less personally I just feel bad for the poor woman that have to share them with men.
Anyway, I am sure we could have found more to do in Austin, it was a pretty nice city, we decided to go check out the Hill Country and enjoyed that greatly.
We saw LBJ's house in Johnson City.
This was an antique store in Johnson City, it was closed, see anything weird?
Marble Falls was a cute town too. I purchased a really nice Vietnam pocket knife for my FIL who is obviously a vet. I found it in a little co-op style store with various vendors.
I kind of dig little towns over cities, I am more at ease in them.
I will be back to Austin, possibly next year, I am hoping to attend a Chive Charities Green Gala that they throw every year, as a donor I get 1st dibs RSVPing to attend. I have passed for 4 years now I think I need to go for the 5th year. We will be sans kid so we will be able to go out in the evening and check out the music scene and bar scene better. Plus we will be staying in downtown so it will be easier to explore and walk around.