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NASA Johnson Space Center Houston
64 Reviews If you go to Houston, you have to visit the Space Center! After all, Houston is where NASA-Johnson Space Center is located. That's where the astronauts train and where NASA curates the lunar rocks...
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Riverwalk & Riverwalk Mall San Antonio
97 Reviews To me famous San Antonio Riverwalk was just like taking a nice walk along the town's area that is bordering the San Antonio River. But yes, there one can indeed find out how San Antonio is a romantic,...
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Downtown Dallas Dallas
32 Reviews The Meyerson Symphony Center is located near the Dallas Museum of Art, Guadalupe Cathedral and Nasher Sculpture Center in the Cultural District of Dallas. We've wanted to see the Meyerson since we...
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Capitol Austin
43 Reviews Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986 for its "significant contribution to American history," the Texas Capitol is an impressive example of late 19th century public architecture. The largest...
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Stockyards Historic District Fort Worth
46 Reviews The rich history of the Stockyards will be honored with the Cowboys who made Cowtown what it is today at the Celebration on July 29, Sun. front lawn of the Exchange Building, when the million Cowboys...
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Laguna Madre Nature Trail South Padre Island
2 Reviews The Laguna Madre Nature Trail was a great place to take a stroll and watch the different birds and even alligators wander in the tidewater park. There were also some exotic birds that had attracted...
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Moody Gardens Galveston
12 Reviews Yes, it's the mega Moody Gardens. You know, I recently bought a copy of a travel book for kids in Houston and they listed Moody Gardens on there and the cost was $4. Well, I paid $45.00 for a one day...
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Downtown El Paso El Paso
3 Reviews Most travellers pass through El Paso without stopping to look around. They are missing our special culture and sights. Our core city is undergoing revitalization. If you like museums, we have the...
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Texas State Aquarium Corpus Christi
10 Reviews The Corpus Christi Aquarium is not so marvellous than the Monterey one but it worths a visit. A lot of beautiful fishes in the aquariums. Some sharks and turtles. Coloured gelly fishes. Out door, an...
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Cadillac Ranch Amarillo
14 Reviews The Cadillac Ranch was a huge disappointment. From photos going back about forty years, I was expecting a pink Cadillac or two. What exists now is a lot of graffiti-covered junk. All the original...
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Hot Springs Big Bend National Park
7 Reviews If you would like a longer walk, instead of returning the way you came after visiting the Hot Springs continue on past the springs. You will come to a fork. The left fork loops up onto the top of the...
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Las Colinas Sculpture Irving
6 Reviews This striking sculpture known as The Mustangs was placed on Williams Square in 1984. The horses gallop across the plaza on a granite stream, manes streaming behind them, wild and free! We've taken...
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Dr. Pepper Museum Waco
4 Reviews Who would have thought touring an old bottling plant would be so interesting--but it was! The Dr. Pepper Museum is housed in a former bottling plant, constructed in 1891 in Dublin, Texas--a small...
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LBJ Ranch Fredericksburg
8 Reviews As we toured The Texas White House and various sites related to our former President's childhood, I couldn't help but recall some of my childhood memories. My grandparents owned a farm in...
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Landa Park New Braunfels
3 Reviews The Landa Park has 51 acres, with trails (including the Panther Canyon Nature Trail), miniature train, paddle boats on the Landa Lake, miniature golf, picnic tables and more. I took an early morning...
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Old Collin County Courthouse McKinney
2 Reviews The old courthouse was the first permanent building on the square downtown. This original gothic style building was built in 1876 and stones were quarried three miles from town for the construction....
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Texas Sculpture Garden Frisco
1 Review This is a free park with sculpture done by Texas artists. There are both indoor and outdoor sculptures. We took our granddaughter here to see them one day. She enjoyed the more representational ones....
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Texas A&M University College Station
10 Reviews Who wouldn't want a glimpse of the President's oval office. Although visitors can sit at the desk and look like a VIP, no photos were permitted. This seat of power was decorated just as President...
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Sam Houston Memorial Museum Huntsville
9 Reviews There are other things to see at this museum. There is the large pond named for Houston's Cherokee father. A barn and blacksmith shop, main museum building, a pottery and a few other buildings. Some...
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Gameworks Grapevine
1 Review Gameworks has enough video games to keep any kid busy for hours--just take lots of money! We hosted three of our grandkids for the Christmas holiday, two remained for ten days after their parents flew...
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Mayborn Planetarium Killeen
1 Review The Mayborn Planetarium and Space Theater opened in 2003.. since then, over 35 thousand visitors have attended programs including Public Planetarium Shows, Laser Light Shows, Large Format Films, and...
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Old Downtown Plano Plano
1 Review Plano has a delightful downtown area which they have carefully refurbished. The original brick streets were restored in 1986. There is quite a nice historic flavour with the old buildings and turn of...
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Buddy Holly Center Lubbock
4 Reviews First off, I need to admit I was not a big buddy holly fan however I was pleasantly surprised with the Buddy Holly Center. Admission is $5 per adult and a visit will take at least 45 minutes. The...
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Aquarena Springs San Marcos
3 Reviews This is the park that everyone hangs around at when the weather is nice. It is a spring-fed river, very fast-moving and full of interesting colors. There are grassy hills all around and you can go in...
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Ellis County Courthouse Waxahachie
4 Reviews This is considered by many to be the finest courthouse in the state. Considering that there are well over 200 counties here, that is quite a remarkable accomplishment. This 1895 courthouse is made of...
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30 green, shady acres sometimes called “the jewel in the heart of Austin”. Theme gardens such as rose, herb and Japanese garden are interconnected with streams, waterfalls and Koi-filled ponds. The Hartman Prehistoric Garden recreates local dinosaur habitat. Two historic pioneer homes have been moved here for display. Free admission.
An excellent slice of 20th century American history. If you remember where you were when John F. Kennedy was shot, you must visit this museum. Johnson's vision for The Great Society created legislation for civil rights, helping the poor, mandating product safety, environmental issues, and highway beautification among others. Open daily except holidays. Free admission.
Denison is only 75 miles north of Dallas and is located in Northeastern area of Texas in Grayson County which borders Oklahoma. The railroad played an important role in the growth of the city as did the establishment of Perrin Air Force Base in the 1940’s. Denison is the birthplace of Dwight (Ike) Eisenhowers, the 34th President of the United States and his modest little two-storey house is open for viewing. There are Historic walking and driving tours which guide visitors through neighbourhoods and the historic downtown arts district. Denison Dam and Powerhouse are north of the city on Lake Texoma.
Lake Texoma is 5 miles north/west of Denison and is the largest lake in capacity in the Tulsa District and the tenth largest in the United States. It is widely recognised as a top fishing lake, and is one of the most popular recreation destinations in the Southwest. The area includes two wildlife refuges, two state parks, fifty four U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-managed parks, twenty-six resorts, hundreds of campgrounds and a variety of excellent golf courses.
Sherman was named for General Sidney Sherman who was a cavalry officer famous for coining the phrase 'Remember the Alamo'. Sherman is home to many Fortune 500 companies, which include Texas Instruments, Proctor and Gamble and Johnson & Johnson Medical Inc. It was tagged the "Fifth Industrial City of Texas."
The 32,000 acre Caddo Lake is Texas' only naturally-formed lake. It straddles the boundary between Texas and Louisiana and has as many as five configurations. It has also been called Sodo Lake and Fairy (Ferry) Lake. Between 1845 and 1875 more than 200 steamboats travelled between Shreveport, Louisiana, and Jefferson through Caddo Lake. The upper 1/3 of the lake is a 10,000 acre pristine cypress swamp crisscrossed by a maze of boat roads. The Bald Cypress trees on Caddo Lake have been ring dated to 400 years of age and give the Lake its unique beauty. The first off-shore oil drilling happened in Caddo Lake by the Gulf Oil Company. There has been a recorded 189 species of trees and shrubs, 42 woody vines, 75 grasses, 216 kinds of birds, 47 mammals and 90 fish and reptiles. Field observations say that Caddo Lake' ecosystem is one of the most extensive remaining intact cypress swamp...
Jefferson is located in Marion County in northeast section of Texas. It is the most delightful little historic town of with a population today of just over 2,100. After the Civil War, Jefferson's population boomed to 35,000 due to heavy commerce. Southern mansions and plantations around the area were common. There are some great stores in the historic district including plenty of antique shops. There are two maps of walking tours which you can take on your own around the Historic District and see some of Jeffersons finest old houses. Some 50 of these homes are B & B's. Carnegie Library was a gift from the Carnegie Foundation in 1890 and one of 4 such libraries in Texas. The Texas History Museum is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Texas' rich heritage. It is small but worth a visit.
Marshall is located in the piney woods of East Texas, right next to Jefferson and was at one time one of the biggest and wealthiest cities in the state. When Missouri joined the Confederacy, federal troops were sent in to forcibly keep that strategically located state under Union control. The Marshall area offers much in the way of scenic beauty with its tall stately pines, rolling hills, pine thickets and abundance of wildflowers. There is only a community of 25,000 people but there are more than 100 historical markers and medallions with several listed in the National Register of Historical Places, in the area.
Arlington is centrally located between Dallas and Fort Worth and is the 3rd largest city in North Texas, with a population nearing 300,000. The city is known as the metroplex's "Entertainment Capital", and best known for the Arlington Ball Park , the home of the Texas Rangers Baseball Club and Six Flags over Texas which celebrated its 40th Anniversary last year (2001). There are also other attractions like the Palace of Wax and Ripley's Believe It or Not!, River Legacy Living Science Center, Hurricane Harbour Waterpark, Traders Village, Festival Marketplace Mall amongst a few.
Fort Worth lies within Tarrant County and hey say Fort Worth is the city where the 'West' begins, it is "Cowtown, USA" and Dallas's younger sister. Definitely quite a contrast to the very business-like Dallas. The art museums, performing arts centre and parks are second in total acreage only to Chicago. The Water Gardens are a spectacular park which features water in all aspects - bubbling, flowing, sprinkling, pouring and gurgling. The beautiful Japanese gardens are a place of tranquillity at any time of the year. The FW Zoo has to be one of the best I have seen anywhere and has its own Texas flavour. Fort Worth Stockyards is in the National Historical District and you can really feel the old west recaptured all along Exchange Avenue.
The Westin La Cantera Resort, San Antonio San Antonio
1 Review and 622 Opinions Very nice resort with amazing hill country views.
Regency Inn & Suites Hobby Airport Houston
1 Review and 98 Opinions Upon our initial trip down to Houston, we stayed in the Comfort Inn up by I-10 near Galena Park....
Baymont Inn & Suites Dallas/Love Field Dallas
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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...
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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