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A brief tour of historic Gruene, Texas

Posted onApril 13, 2016November 23, 2020Leave a comment

The penultimate stop on our Texas Hill Country tour last year was the historic little town of Gruene, Texas. Settled in 1840, the town grew up around and in conjunction with the very successful cotton Read More …

CategoriesTexas, USATagsarchitecture, National Register of Historic Places

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Comfort, Texas, is closed today

Posted onOctober 25, 2015April 19, 20204 Comments

Texas Hill Country is littered with historic towns of varying degrees of charm. A few of these (Fredericksburg and Gruene, among them) have become major tourist attractions – places where their considerable charm is diminished Read More …

CategoriesTexas, USATagsNational Register of Historic Places

Brilliant color at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas

Posted onMay 29, 2015November 23, 20209 Comments

I came to Texas this spring largely so I could drive around and admire wildflowers, so it made sense to visit the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center – both for the flowers and in tribute Read More …

CategoriesTexas, USA

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Christ Lutheran Cemetery, Cherry Spring, Texas

Posted onMay 25, 2015November 27, 20192 Comments

Cherry Spring, Texas, is one of many unincorporated Hill Country communities settled mostly by German immigrants in the years just before the US Civil War. Although very rural today, there were once quite a number Read More …

CategoriesTexas, USATagsreligion and religious architecture

Cooper’s BBQ, Llano, Texas

Posted onMay 20, 2015October 17, 20182 Comments

Back in Minnesota after a spring visit to Hill Country, we were telling my mother about our trip. As with any discussion about Texas, BBQ came up. We told my mother that we had eaten Read More …

CategoriesTexas, USA

Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas

Posted onMay 17, 2015December 15, 202010 Comments

While in Hill Country a few weeks ago, we took some advice from the 1977 country song and headed for Luckenbach, Texas, where there “ain’t nobody feelin’ no pain.” 

CategoriesTexas, USATagsmusic

Driving south through the USA in November

Posted onJanuary 25, 2015May 3, 20202 Comments

Each fall for the last 21 years my parents packed up their motorhome or (in recent years) their mini-van and headed south to spend some or all of the winter in Arizona. Some years the Read More …

CategoriesArizona, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, USATagsroad trips

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I'll be leading a virtual tour of Egypt's highlights via Zoom, complete with travel planning tips, through the Minneapolis Public Schools on Tuesday, February 23 at 6 pm. (It costs $19.) No need to be a Minneapolis resident to register at https://adult.mpls.k12.mn.us

Exploring Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun

Exploring Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun

With a wealth of cultural and outdoor activities, a thriving art and food scene, historical sites, and natural areas, Phoenix is more than a snowbird escape. Read More ...

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