The Texas Cheese Tour
My first taste of the Texas cheese renaissance came at a farmers market in Dallas, where I nibbled a bite of ... Read More »
Autos for the Ages
A 1956 sky-blue-and-white Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Sedan cruises a couple of laps around a San Marcos parking lot, ... Read More »
Amazing Altitudes
One of the greatest values of travel is that it affords us a new perspective on the world. When we abandon our ... Read More »
San Antonio by Trike
I feel a tug of skepticism as I test my tricycle legs at a storage facility just north of downtown San Antonio, ... Read More »
Room to Breathe
The trouble with the traditional American school calendar is that it conditions you to believe that summers should ... Read More »
Daytripper: San Marcos
Archeological evidence suggests that humans have inhabited the San Marcos area for 10,000 years or more. And to ... Read More »
Texas Top 40 No. 13, Corpus Christi
Texas’ biggest beach city (pop. roughly 313,000) seasons its mix of beachcombing, wakeboarding, sailing, and other ... Read More »
Texas Top 40, No. 14, Palestine
Shaped by agriculture, steamboating, the discovery of oil, and the railroad, the city of Palestine today harbors a ... Read More »
Texas Top 40 No. 15, Galveston
With its coastal setting and intriguing history, Galveston is a favorite among readers seeking a Texas beach ... Read More »
Extraordinary Texas. And Texans.
The phrase "Too much is not enough" occasionally pops up as a possible motto for the state of Texas. Another ... Read More »
Boardwalk Empire
Summer is here. for me, there’s something about the longer days and warm nights that calls to mind childhood ... Read More »
Dining on the Dock of the Bay
Inside Dirty Al’s at Pelican Station in Port Isabel, I have a front-row seat for watching the Laguna Madre: A ... Read More »
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