I’m sitting under the thatched roof at Austin’s Hula Hut restaurant. The day could not be better. The Hula Hut is perched over the water, upstream from Lady Bird Lake. It’s far from the traffic noise of downtown Austin, bathed in what must be generations of laidback light.
There is an old, funky, laid-back, slacker Austin. And there is a new high-tech, nerd/engineer Austin. The Hula Hut definitely falls in the pre-nerd era. It’s the kind of place that makes you take a deep breath and say, “Life is good.”
But it’s not all fun and games today.
