travel beyond the obvious
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 …
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 …
We found unexpected surprises tucked in odd corners where we visited the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center this spring. One of the most unexpected was this exuberant little cactus tucked into a flower box along Read More …
Texas Hill Country isn’t prime cattle country, but there are cattle here. Sometimes they surprise you; for example, you might be driving along admiring the cowboy boots decorating a fence. . . and suddenly there Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.”
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 …