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Day Trip   Houston

Day Trip, Houston

 10 Reviews  I visited some friends at Sugar Land while it was in the middle of celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2009! The official celebration started in January at the State of the City event with the... 

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Parks / Lakes   Dallas

Parks / Lakes, Dallas

 15 Reviews   I decided to walk from West Village to Mansion on Turtle Creek. Tell you the truth I didn't see anything interesting about Mansion; however, I discovered nice park area along the creek with tall... 

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Weird Austin   Austin

Weird Austin, Austin

 8 Reviews  In Austin across from the UT campus, there is a road named Guadalupe, also known as 'the drag.' On the side of the Baja Fresh building, there is a frog which could be dismissed as graffitti but... 

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Unique / Unusual / One-Of-A-Kind   Houston

Unique / Unusual / One-Of-A-Kind, Houston

 13 Reviews  Just southwest of Houston is the George Ranch in Richmond, TX. I've never been but am including this tip because many travelers want to see an "old west" or "cowboy" side of Houston -- which nowadays,... 

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Texas Cattle   Dallas

Texas Cattle, Dallas

 6 Reviews  When I was in Dallas at the Convention Center in 1997, I saw this park and took some pictures here. One of them is on my Dallas Intro page. It is Pioneer Plaza, the world's largest bronze sculpture... 

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Lakes & Water   Austin

Lakes & Water, Austin

 17 Reviews  Just about 10 miles south of Austin you'll find the beautiful crystal clear river in San Marcos "Rio Vista Falls" Because it is spring fed it has a constant year round water temperature of about 76... 

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Art / Architecture / Beauty   Houston

Art / Architecture / Beauty, Houston

 14 Reviews  "Life is suffering" is one of the premises of Buddhism, but escape the hustle and bustle of Houston by visiting the Jade Buddha Temple. Built in 1989 and situated in SW Houston, this Temple serves the... 

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Other CITIES   Dallas

Other CITIES, Dallas

 21 Reviews  There are various reasons you may head South when you leave Dallas. Most people want to do the Texas trifecta, heading from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, south through Austin to San Antonio. On... 

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Parks & Hiking   Austin

Parks & Hiking, Austin

 21 Reviews  Located 32 miles west of Austin in the Blanco country, this is a perfect park to go hiking through its 20miles of trails. Take the US290 west and then North on FM3232. Entrance is about 5$ a day.... 

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Galveston / Galveston Bay   Houston

Galveston / Galveston Bay, Houston

 7 Reviews  Drive down 288 until you can't go anymore, through Freeport,TX there is a lovely spot of raw ocean beach. The road ends and while you drive out onto the sand it almost looks like you are driving... 

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Tours   Dallas

Tours, Dallas

 6 Reviews  You read about, see and utilize the products...the pink cars are everywhere, so when visiting Dallas, why not stop by the headquarters facility and visit the offices of Mary Kay. The building is... 

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Mount Bonnell   Austin

Mount Bonnell, Austin

 7 Reviews  Austin's Mt. Bonnell is one of Austin's oldest tourist attractions being documented as far back as 1850. It is the highest point within Austin City Limits at 785 feet. A wonderful place to picnic in... 

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Food / Drink   Houston

Food / Drink, Houston

 9 Reviews  This is a great neighborhood, joint where you can get home mexican food 24-hours a day. That means after you leave the downtown bars at 2am, take your last $7 to the Spanish Flower in the Heights. You... 

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Crown Hill Cemetery   Dallas

Crown Hill Cemetery, Dallas

 5 Reviews  This place is horrible! If I hadnt of had a family member donate a plot, I would have never put my son there! The apartments behind it, the fence is down and everyone walks through with no regards to... 

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Nature   Austin

Nature, Austin

 7 Reviews  Zilfer Botanical garden is very much like the other botanical gardens. It has flowers, bamboo, and in general pretty landscaping. I reccomend going for everyone except disabled people. Children will... 

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Kemah Boardwalk   Houston

Kemah Boardwalk, Houston

 5 Reviews  The Boardwalk at Kemah (45 South) is a walkway on the water with about 10 restaurants, live music, fountains, small train, some of the minor carnival activities. Sure bring the kids but then come... 

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Combined Suggestions   Dallas

Combined Suggestions, Dallas

 6 Reviews  Did you know it goes all around the city? That's every other person told me when I first moved to Dallas. Anyway, Belt Line Rd. is a very long road and it does outline Dallas (as well as going... 

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Driving Around   Austin

Driving Around, Austin

 5 Reviews  This is a very nice and quiet street to cruise after midnight or early during an early weekend drive. Also, it only take about 5-7 minutes get from downtown (Lamar & 6th) to South Austin (Lamar & Hwy.... 

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San Jacinto State Park   Houston

San Jacinto State Park, Houston

 6 Reviews  INFORMATION In 1948, the Battleship TEXAS became the first battleship memorial museum in the U.S. That same year, on the anniversary of Texas Independence, the Texas was presented to the State of... 

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Deep Ellum   Dallas

Deep Ellum, Dallas

 4 Reviews  Deep Ellum has been often described as a 'little New Orleans and Southern SoHo' - It is trendy and zaney and very unique. The shops you will see there are even decorated in a very colourful manner.... 

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Clear Lake   Houston

Clear Lake, Houston

 5 Reviews  The Johnson Space Center, where NASA astronauts train, is located in the Clear Lake area. There is consequently the highest concentration in America of astronauts in this little SW corner of Houston.... 

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Churches / Schools   Dallas

Churches / Schools, Dallas

 8 Reviews  Perkins Chapel was built in the 1950’s originally for the worship needs of Protestants. In the lat 1990’s the Perkins-Prothro family consulted with the Catholic campus ministry and donated funds for a... 

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NASA Johnson Space Center   Houston

NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston

 3 Reviews  One of the disapointments of the visit was that the stop at the Missile park at the end tour was canceled because a thunderstorm was moving into the area. I did get this distant shot of the rocket... 

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Festivals   Dallas

Festivals, Dallas

 4 Reviews  Big Tex stands tall out near the front entrance. The ferris wheel (see picture on main page) is also an attraction. The fairgrounds are very clean, though perhaps too structured as compared to other... 

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Festivals / Concerts   Houston

Festivals / Concerts, Houston

 4 Reviews  At Sam Houston Park, there's an annual Jazz festival held where you can walk around and listen to different Jazz performers. This is a popular event, and worth checking out. Timings are normally... 

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Fort Duncan Museum: Eagle Pass, Texas

by Stephen-KarenConn

Fort Duncan was established in 1849, as one of five posts along the Texas/Mexico border on the Rio Grande. The town of Eagle Pass, Texas, owes it's existance to the fort, which was occupied by 3 companies of the 1st Infantry regiment. During the Civil War, the post was under control of Confederate troops of the Frontier Regiment. Federal troops reoccupied the fort in 1868, and it remained under military authority until 1916. Today, many restored stone buildings form the center of a municipal park, including this one which houses the Fort Davis Museum.The free museum, which is open afternoons from 1-4, is rather limited in its exhibits. To me, the most interesting thing in the museum was the curator, an elderly man in a wheel-chair, who was very knowledgeable and interesting to talk with. He stirred my dander when he called General Robert E. Lee, leader of the Confederate army, a traitor....

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Texas Blue Star Memorial Highways

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The National Garden Clubs, Inc. have had a program in place to honor service men and women since 1945. It's the Blue Star Memorial Program, and it began with the planting of 8,000 Dogwood trees by the New Jersey Council of Garden Clubs in 1944 as a living memorial to veterans of World War 11. The following year the National Council of State Garden Clubs, as it was called at the time, adopted the program and began a Blue Star Highway system, which covers thousands of miles across the Continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii. A large metal Blue Star Memorial Highway Marker was placed at appropriate locations along the way.

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Big Bend Country

by ATXtraveler

Texas is a large diverse landscape in which you can go through the heat of the desert on one side, to the cold biting freeze of the Piney Woods. If you only get the opportunity to see one of the regions of Texas, you are missing out on the reason we are who we are.One of the very good travel events calendars for the region comes from Texas Highways Magazine, and it is seperated into several different areas.The desert area listed in this link is to the Big Bend country, which includes El Paso and Alpine, among others.

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Parrots in Fort Worth

by kyoub

A few years ago I hear about some parrots that lived on the west side of our city.I thought this could not be true. Parrots like it where it is warm year around.We drove over to where they were supposed to be living and sure enough there was a bunch of birds there with a big condo looking nest.The birds are Monk Parakeets that started out as someones pet. Now there are several in the area.

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Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge

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The 45,187 acres which comprise Laguna Atascosa (Muddy Lagoon in Spanish) is the wildest place along the South Texas coast. The landscape is a unique blending of temperate, subtropical, costal and desert habitats. Many Mexican plants and animal life reach the northern edge of their range here, while migrating waterfowl and sandhill cranes fly down for the mild winters. The refuge is a mecca for birders and naturalists because of the unique mix of wildlife that is found nowhere else.We spent a lovely March morning hiking here and sighted many rare birds and animals, including some we had never seen before. These included crested caracara, roadrunner, plain chachalala, green jay, white tipped dove, great kiskadee, and black-bellied whistling duck. A total of 410 bird species have been recorded here, more than at any other National Wildlife Refuge in America. In the mammal department we...

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Georgetown

by keeweechic

Georgetown is in the centre of Williamson County, about 26 miles north of Austin and is known as the Red Poppy Capital of Texas. The flowers came to Georgetown almost 80 years ago when a WWI soldier fighting in Europe sent his mother in Georgetown a packet of red poppy seeds from Flanders Field. She planted them and the seeds have propagated over the years. The Red Poppy Festival is held on the square on the first weekend in April. There is also the Inner Space Cavern – Georgetown's most popular attraction which is a cave that was discovered in 1963 when drilling crew working on an Interstate Highway 35 drilled into one of the large rooms of the cavern which is over 80,000 years in the making. Remains of the Ice Age Mastodons, wolves and sabre-tooth cats have been found within the eroded limestone structure.

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Forney

by keeweechic

Forney is surprisingly known as being the “Antique Capital of Texas” with more than 150 dealers in the area. There is quite a strip of them running parallel to Hwy 80 with all kinds of imaginable bits and pieces. Forney itself is quite a quaint little town with some great old style homes but the outer areas are fast being developed and it won’t be a small town for much longer. is only 20 miles east of Dallas.

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Terrell

by keeweechic

Terrell lies in the north east section of Texas, about 30 miles east of Dallas. There are still remnants of Terrells prosperous 1880's cotton era found around the railways tracks. There are some wonderfully restored old Victorian homes from Terrells prosperous days. R.A. Terrell House (c.1860-65) is on the campus of Southwestern Christian College was one of the city's first homes. The home belonged to the founder of the city, Robert A. Terrell and is one of only 20 surviving round houses in the U. S. It is both a state and national historic landmark. (Interior not open to the public.)

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McKinney

by keeweechic

McKinney is in Collin County, just 20 miles north of Dallas. McKinney has over 1,700 historic homes and buildings and the town has earned a listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Apart from its history, there are also more than 100 specialty shops, antique stores and restaurants in and around the historic downtown area. During 1866 Jessie and Frank James along with their gang, were regular visitors to McKinney where they had a cousin (Tuck Hill) living.By Air: The McKinney Municipal Airport is at 1500 East Industrial Bvld. It serves both light and jet aircraft. The nearest large commercial airport is Dallas/Fort Worth International – 30 miles south/west of McKinney. By Road : From Dallas take US-75 North, then take the W.Louisiana St/Virginia Parkway (FM-3038), exit #40.

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Bonham

by keeweechic

Bonham is one of the oldest towns in Texas, some will tell you it is THE oldest. It is certainly the oldest in the Red River Valley region. Bonham is famous for Sam Rayburn, the town's most illustrious son. A statesman, congressman and a major influence of the 20th century. From 1906 he held elective office for 55 consecutive years and was elected 24 times to the US House of Representatives. His house and a Museum holds many items from those years and very much worth a visit. The Fannin County Museum is also worth a visit where you can see prehistoric fossils and a mammoth’s tooth found in the area. Fort English is a replica of the original settlement that existed in 1837 which later became Bonham – named after James Butler Bonham was a hero of the Alamo. He was amazing in that he left the Alamo twice during the siege to try and gain aid from Gonzales for the besieged force and also to...

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Q:  I'm looking to do a weekend trip to Austin in/around April 2012 to surprise my fiance. He loves music and a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn... 

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A: Hi Kim - you definitely want to stay in the downtown area if you want to go out at night and listen to music. Lots of bars on 4th, 5th and 6th St. and if you don't have... 

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