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Unique / Unusual / One-Of-A-Kind Houston
12 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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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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Lakes & Water Austin
16 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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Day Trip Houston
10 Reviews A beautiful piece of Texan land preserved with typical bayous (river or wet land in Southern US english) and forests, nested in a bend of the river Brazos. Ideal location to observe alligators (best...
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Texas Cattle Dallas
5 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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Parks & Hiking Austin
19 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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Art / Architecture / Beauty Houston
11 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
20 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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Weird Austin Austin
5 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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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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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
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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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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Tours Dallas
5 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
6 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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Clear Lake Houston
4 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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Dallas Arboretum / Zoo Dallas
2 Reviews Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is set beside White Rock Lake, in sight of downtown' Dallas. The Arboretum features 66 superbly landscaped acres of towering trees and fragrant gardens circling...
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Driving Around Austin
2 Reviews What an experience! If you love to ride, you must rent a Harley and ride the hill country. We rented at Eaglerider in Austin, (www.eaglerider.com) and headed out for miles of fun hours of fun. I...
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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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Deep Ellum Dallas
2 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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Kemah Boardwalk Houston
4 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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Festivals Dallas
2 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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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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Churches / Schools Dallas
7 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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Shopping / Sports / Recreation Houston
5 Reviews Inside the Galleria is a full sized ice rink, just in case a game of hockey needs to break out. Also with every rink of ice, you will need a zamboni, which they do in fact have. There is public...
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Heading east from Amarillo on I-40 in the Texas panhandle you will come to a giant cross at Groom on the south side of the Interstate. Do take a few minutes and stop. There is more to it. The story of Jesus' Passion is told in several stations. It is quite uplifting, and you will be glad you stopped.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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...
Palestine has an abundance of historical building and homes, over 1800 in all and second only to Galveston. The Texas State Railroad also is quite an attraction there with antique steam engines and cars operating from March through to October on a 25.5 mile route to Rusk (and return). The trip is through dense East Texas woodlands and hardwood creek bottoms and is especially lovely during Spring when the Dogwood trees are blooming and in Autumn when the turning of the trees. Other attractions around Palestine are the Engeling Wildlife Management Area which is in the northern part of the county. Lake Palestine, is a reservoir of 25,500 surface acres on the Neches River which provides the county with water. Nasa's National Scientific Balloon Facility is also just outside of Palestine.The old downtown area (Old Town Palestine) is filled with architecture from the 1800’s and the area is...
Athens is 73 miles south east of Dallas and is the largest city and county seat of Henderson County. Indians inhabited the area during prehistoric times. Over time, fossil remains of extinct horses and camels have been unearthed as well as pottery and remnants of an aboriginal culture which existed along the Trinity River thousands of years ago.The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center is just outside of Athens. The center is an innovative aquarium and hatchery complex with over 300,000 gallons of aquaria. You can explore the secret habitat of a Hill Country stream or stroll through an underwater world surrounded by lunker largemouth bass, or check out the American alligator in its natural environment.The New York, TX Cheesecake home is here. Their cheesecakes are excellent and the recipe is said to be a century old Pennsylvania-Dutch and one which has been handed down from generation to...
Mineola lies in the East Texas Piney Woods area, around 80 miles east of Dallas in Wood County. Broad Street is the main street (Hwy 80) and is lined with old stores with varied pasts. There are many historic buildings and homes in the town and number of which have been turned into wonderful Bed and Breakfasts. Mineola is known as the 'Gateway to the Lake Country'. There are many lakes in the surrounding areas providing good fishing and recreational activities. The area also has some good pottery stores. There are a lot of good local craftsmen, artists. Musicians, writers and other artists in the area.Driving : Mineola is right at the connection of Hwy 80 and Hwy 69 in East Texas Piney Woods area. Hwy 80 runs east to west and Hwy 69 runs north to south.From Dallas take US80 east through Terrell and straight into Broad Street, Mineola.
The town of Ennis is south east of Dallas metroplex and in its early days, earned a ‘wild west’ reputation with its 13 saloons and six beer halls. It became a stop off place for outlaws such as Cole Younger’s gang and Sam Bass’s gang. In 1873 Czech immigrants started arriving and their influence is still strong in the region today. The Ennis area is known for their spring showing of bluebonnets and some 42 miles of trails which have been created there to drive around. The Texas Legislature named them “The Official Bluebonnet Trail of Texas.” Bluebonnets are the state flower of Texas.
Hotel Contessa San Antonio
4 Reviews and 1000 Opinions The hotel was nice and so was the staff. They fixed a problem with our door within 5 minutes and...
The Magnolia Houston Houston
1 Review and 1650 Opinions The Magnolia Hotel opened in 2002 in the old downtown Post-Dispatch building, which was built in...
Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek Dallas
1 Review and 272 Opinions WORDS do not express how wonderful and elegant this hotel is! The people are absolutely wonderful...
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