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- We are winter
Texans and enjoy the great state of Texas and your website has
just made it a lot easier to decide where to make our stops...
Your website has helped me, I know where to go and what to see.
Thank you for your great work. - Joe and Donna Carpentier
- How can any
Texan who reads Texas Escapes not feel good about their state?
Keep up the great work! - Terry
- I am a fan
of Texas Escapes, and I want to congratulate you on providing
what is surely one of the best organized and useful sites about
Texas on the web. (And I want to commend you for not cluttering
your site with “yeehaw” cheesiness that I have found on a few
other Texas websites.) Between your site and the online Handbook
of Texas, I could spend several lifetimes visiting places in Texas.
Again thanks, William Holmes, Arlington, Texas
- I discovered
your web site quite by accident making me wish Mississippi had
one like this. What a treasure for the state of Texas and America!
People who fear the internet need only visit your site to find
the perfect example of the good it can do. What a great job!!!
Thank you, Jerry Grace, Satartia, Mississippi May
21, 2006
- I ran across
Texas Escapes more or less by chance, and I immediately bookmarked
your production. It is a wonderful resource for those who are
interested in Texas, its people, its geography, and its history...
Thank your for the effort you have put into making Texas Escapes
such a good [magazine]. - Dr. William R. Thurman, Jr.,Thomaston,
Georgia
- Thanks for
all you have done to make driving around so much fun for me. I
don't just take trips any more, I take <<<---T---R---I---P---S--->>>.
- BG, Carlsbad, New Mexico
- Thanks for
the great work you are doing to preserve all that is so precious
to all of us, as we age along with everyone else. - William
(Bill) Knapek, Houston
- Please keep
publishing your outstanding history lessons on and about Texas.
After all, we probably won't find much of any of this in a Texas
History book. Thank You. - Rod Harris
- Thank you
for the work you're doing! What you are doing might not be interesting
to the generation under 40, but those of us who have traveled
the state appreciate the time, exposure, and excellent way you
go about your task. And, those under 40 will someday be grateful
for what you are doing. - Henry Adrion III
- I sent some
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pass through on their summer vacation and they wound up revising
the itinerary because they saw so many interesting side trips...
- Gael Montana, Comfort, Texas
- I stumbled
upon your site quite by accident and found it fascinating... Thank
you for keeping history and memories alive. - Jon Vance, Dallas,
Tx
- Just by luck
I came across your magazine. My jaw dropped when I found it and
can't believe the fantastic information. Good job!!! - Beverly
Santos
- Stumbling
upon your site has enabled me to remember some of the stories
I remember being told when I was a kid. I have even taken my son
out to Bono and told him the history behind Bono and why it is
important to our family. - Debbie Miracle
- I love your
website. Flat-out, I love it. I'm a Californian but have done
extensive traveling through Texas, and, also I'm fascinated by
the old Texas towns. ... Thank you, and, keep up the good work,
Doug Greenwald
- Thank you
for your informative [magazine] and the smiles it brings - David
Buck
- I happened
upon your website one day and can’t get enough! I’ve come to be
quite a history buff to Texas history and love reading about the
rich stories in Texas Escapes. - Barney Lee Douglas
- Thanks for
compiling such a good source of information! I consistently find
myself being directed to Texas Escapes when looking for info on
Texas counties. - Kara R. Dotter, UT Austin
- Thank you
for your site and the research that brought it together. - John
Clawson
- You're lovely
folks doing a great job at what you do! I just wanted to take
a minute and tell you so. - Jim Warsher, Rutland, Vermont
- I spend
the majority of my time on the Internet researching places, towns,
buildings, etc and your magazine is a great help. Your writers
are excellent. - Sylvia Mills
- Extremely
interesting and informative. Wonderful site – a true Texas Treasure
- David Malcolm
- It’s amazing
how much work it must have taken to document all these communities.
Thanks - Robert Griffith, Burleson
- I love this
site. I look at it every day. I appreciate all the wonderful work
you guys do. - Andrea, Corpus Christi
- Your website
is absolutely fabulous. Every time I take a road trip across Texas
I always check your website first to see if there is something,
anything, a courthouse or ghosttown, that I should visit along
the way. - Bob Worley
- I find it
especially moving that you would devote time and effort to such
an obscure (and mostly vanished) little burg as Draw, and I express
gratitude on behalf of all of us who once lived in or even passed
through that little hamlet and now years later find it embedded
in our fond memories.- Nolan Porterfield
- You're helping
a number of good causes. - Bill Morgan
- I just discovered
your website today and have been enjoying it immensely. I grew
up in Plainview and Lubbock but have lived away from Texas since
1966. Your photos have sent me on a real nostalgia trip. - Dwight
Young, Preservation Magazine
- I regularly
access Texas Escapes as a resource.
You continue to have the best history/heritage/travel website
in Texas, perhaps the world. - Bob Bowman, Lufkin
- It’s good
to know that someone takes the time to keep up with the history
of the lesser known areas that are barely considered “towns.”
Thanks for that. - David Scheffler, Kosciusko, Texas
- Yours is
a website I stumbled upon months ago rather than sought out. Sometimes
the things we find are better than the things we were looking
for. - Robert Griffith
- I love the
writing style and the information makes it come alive. I have
found you and plan to read and read and read...then maybe mosey
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of Waxahachie
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this website – just love it!
It was because of your website that I first started going to jail
museums and I am an absolute FANATIC about it! - Shannan Yarbrough,
Fredericksburg Chamber
- Thank you!
Don't know how I've missed this website. It's definately a must-have!!
- T Meadors
- I love your
site, and the way you find the beauty and value in parts
of Texas that don't usually make the tourism brochures.... Carol
Pirie, Assistant Director, Texas Film Commission
- I only recently
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scratched the surface of all that is in there. Bravo! - Mary
Vonzastrow
- Oh Boy!!!!
Loved this !!!!!! ... What a welcome site this was!!!!!
I am
not a Texan but I sure spend an awful lot of time driving in your
fair state!! Love learning about what I am looking at and now
I am beginning to actually look FOR and know what it is I AM looking
at ... Thanks Again!! - Kathy Price, Ossian, Indiana
- I enjoyed
perusing your site and judging by the contents, my guess is that
Texas Escapes has a lot of fans. - Kathy Murphy, Publisher,
Texas Highways
- This site
was a great site in giving insight to the town so I knew what
to expect when I got there.
- A very useful
website almost like a maze, one fact leads to another. It is also
good for travel planning.
- ... unique
internet publication - J Lane, Austin, Texas
- ... informative
and funny site. - Rob Hann, London, England
- I'm in tall
cotton since I found your web site! - C Schuetzeberg
- Excellent
content, great historical narratives ... - M Williams, Austin,
TX
- What a delight!
... A refreshing breath of fresh air amidst the stale pages of
the usual travel web sites.
I appreciate your mission, dedication and the very high quality
of the site.
You're bookmarked and will become a frequent reference as (we
drive) through ... this beautiful and fascinating state. Thanks
for what you do. - Sue White, Rockwall, TX
- This is a
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to numerous sites. - Thomas (Tony) Sprague, Norco, CA
- Your site
bowled me over - it contained exactly the information I was looking
for. Not only is it written with wit, it also gives the travel
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- I found your
site and loved it! We went on an ABC ride. After looking at your
site we decided to visit some of the towns. Thanks for your info.
We have had a great time using it to go and see Texas. We are
now off To Quicksand to see if it is there. - Rene' Smith Shaw,
Houston
- It makes
me just want to jump in a car and take off on a major texas roadtrip.
I know of some of those spots, but others I don't, and I'm now
curious. GOOD JOB! - Hargrove, Breckenridge
- Your excellent
newsletter makes me spend more time than I can afford following
the links and planning another trip to Texas. - Chris Abbott,
Chris Abbott Architects, UK
- I think yalls
website name should be Texastravel - G
- This is the
most exciting thing I've seen for Texas devotees since the Texas
Almanac. - J. Barnes, Humble
- I got to
checking out your site and I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
- Stan Cravatt
- What an amazing site. Absolutely
the most informative site about Texas that I have yet to see. ... Thanks so much
for all of your selfless hard work in making this site what it is. - With much
gratitude, Ron Blodgett
- I
enjoy your newsletter and get excited when I see a new one pop up in my e-mail
box. I even try to use the services of your advertisers when possible. Keep up
the good work. - Ron Duckworth, Arlington,TX
- Being
a Texan is something special, it's a lot more than silly-ass cowboy boots and
hats. It takes a publication like yours to get it across. - Stephen Long
- This
site is absolutely the coolest thing to come down the pike ... Rest assured I'll
send your site on to friends and folks. Thanks... - Tim Jackson
- What a fun
site! ... We've got you bookmarked as a reference for our future travels through
the state. - Carrie
- This
website is perhaps the best of the Greatest, for folks interested in ... TEXAS.
Here you can go lots of places, some that you have been to and then some that
make you want to go there. Thanks for all the hard work ... - Robert Castillo,
Fort Worth
- Great
job on the site. I send people to your web address when trips come up in conversation.....
- Scott
- I'm
in love with your website! I have spent the past 2 week's worth of lunch hours
devouring everything I can find! - Donna Elrod
- I'd
like to visit some of the places you show on your site. I love all the old forgotten
history. - Barry Kooda
- Your
site is my favorite on the entire Internet.- Lois
- This
(site) is great for all of us non Texans. - Dallas Bancroft, Lakeland, Florida
- How
about a link that will allow us to e-mail our favorite stories directly to friends?
A few other magazine websites have this, but I never feel inclined to use theirs.
If Texas Escapes had such a feature, I'd use it often. There are plenty of out-of-state
acquaintances of mine who need to be reading this stuff! God bless you all! -
Jacob Wilson
- Great
site! I check it often as it is most interesting and informative. Have recommended
it to all my friends. - M Krauss, Oakwood
- A
friend just sent me your website--splendidly done! I've already sent it on to
a dozen pals. - Al Past
- I
enjoyed the hell out of your whole site. I'm trying to think of the best way to
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. - Aussie M
- While
traveling many times conversations come up on the cb radio about different things
in the area -- I have given your website addy to many while chatting about the
scenery!! - Kathy Price Ossian, Indiana
- Great
site, great looking, great content, I'm glad I found you - Peter French
- This
is the greatest thing I have found on the web in ages. I love it. - Kae
R
- For
all of us who love Texas with an undying devotion, this site is essential. - Bonnie
Kuykendall
- Thanks
for providing an extremely thoughtful and insightful website. - Julie McConnell
- This
site is the most informative "where to go in Texas and what to look for when you
get there" site on the Internet! I love the historical info and loads of photos.
- Lou Ann Herda, Houston, Texas
- I
am new to this site and have already passed it on to others. It is a vicarious
vacation each time I check it out. - A M Scott, Houston
- I
have spent months at many Texas sites and I do mean many. Let me assure you that
when I say yours is excellent, I mean it. ...When you visit your site, you HONESTLY
feel like you're IN TEXAS! - Mike Gerrick
- Subject:
Wonderful website!
Gentlemen: Just wanted to commend you on this GREAT website.
I can spend hours on it. ... - Carol Quattlebaum
- Subject
: Best laugh-out-loud site
How do you do it? This is the best laugh-out-loud
site I read! I am sure all my co-workers think I am reading a joke book or the
comics. You always have the freshest, quirky, light-hearted look at everything.
- The gruntled
state employee, Joan K.
- The
story on Brewster Hudspeth is hilariously fascinating, and oozing with charm --
just like every issue of Texas Escapes. I feel like I should remind you every
so often of the excellence of your publication, lest you forget.
Any
plans on writing a book? ... Your features
are too interesting (and often amusing) not to be shared with those who still
read via the traditional method. - Jacob Wilson
- ...
This is someplace I'd like to visit. I'm an aspiring independent filmmaker (director/writer),
and I get so inspired reading various stories on this site.... - Joyce Chasteen
- Your
web site is unbelievable and watching it grow is the best. - Margaret Waring
- Texas
is a beautiful state...and your online magazine certainly capture it, especially
all the small, out of the way locations that are often overlooked. - Charlotte
T., Midland, TX
- You
make history so interesting, wish it could have been this way in school. -
George & Penny Lester
- You
have a great site! This is something that every Texan should see and I will pass
it on to my acquaintances. - Ivey, Kerens
- HOW
do you know all you know about Texas ... ? - Lori Glenn, editor, Preservation
Texas' Newsletter
- I
was both impressed and enchanted with the variety of material and humor. - Bill
Rau SIDE ROADS
- I
am a professional photographer ....and often find myself look for interesting
places to shoot. This site is excellent ... - Bill "Doc" Scott, Austin
- Subject:
Education thank you
I am an 8th grade English teacher at Frankston
Middle School. I also teach our 8th grade Pre-Advanced Placement (honors) class.
I have been racking my brain for a six weeks project for them. I started searching
for small towns in Texas and ran across your site. It is AWESOME!!!!! The kids
are going to start a research project on historical towns next week. This web
site will be a great help to them. Thank you - Jeana R. Pierce Brooks, Frankston
Middle School
- Somehow
you present the towns in a manner which causes the reader to really feel
like you're there. The well chosen photos also add to this feeling of "being there".
No glitter, no neon, no smog, you present the "soul" of the town. ... - Mike
Gerrick
- Subject:
Love your website!!!!
I have been "stuck" in your website for almost
8 full hours now. I am fascinated with all of it. - Chris Waring
- I'm still amazed
with texasescapes.com, and the amount of time it must take to keep this growing.
- Chris Waring
- What
a delightful website you have!! I had no idea there was anything like Texas Escapes!
..... fascinating!! - Hesketh
- In
looking for information about Texas I stumbled upon your website. I have been
reading your material for hours. ... - Jerry Wakefield, Centerville
- Very fascinating
historical stuff that helps to put my heritage into perspective. Thanks. - Clayton
H
- It
is great to find such a treasure of info about these and so many other towns in
Texas. - Joe Haley
- I
was tickled to death to find Rosebud and all the other small towns [on Texas Escapes].
- Jesse Martinez .
- I
have just revisited the towns of Balmoreah, Marfa, Ft Stockton, Ft Davis, and
Alpine via this internet site and wanted to tell you what good memories the pictures
brought to me..... Maybe I will be able to visit you again some day, as there
is surely no other place on earth like West Texas. ... - R Bearden KY
- Nifty
site. Love the humor which is uniquely Texas.. - D.G. Brock, Los Angeles
- I'm
enjoying the Texas Escapes website ... I believe that four hours of laughing so
hard ... is not time wasted. - PJH
- Subject
: Being Cheeky
Anne Cook of TxDOT steered me to your site, and I'm
glad she did. I love it! I especially like the cheeky voice. - Chandra Beal,
author of "Splash Across Texas."
- I
must say that since you gave me the name of this website, I have been addicted.
I have learned more about Schulenburg, Fayette County and Texas in general than
I could have ever imagined. ... Thanks for the eye-opening information about this
Great State.... - Kim Hilscher
- I'm
an amateur Texas history buff. I talk to my kids' school classes on Texas history
.... I will be using information from your site for future talks. It is fantastic.
... - Stan Cravatt
- Subject:
I love your site
I printed out part of the "swimming to mexico". As a swim
coach at a Texas school, I do try to give our children goals! - Svendiver
- Enjoyed
your website ... ! - Marilyn Magaro, Texas Department of Agriculture
- I enjoy
your magazine immensely... - Joan, General land Office
- Your
information on Cuero is very helpful to this Chamber doing its job. ... Thanks
for helping us to show that life in Cuero is the way life ought to be! - Sara
Post, Executive Director, Cuero Chamber of Commerce
- I
just finished reading your satire to my daughter. We both want more. - T. Baynham
- This
website has made me utterly homesick for my home state! Tons of stuff I never
knew...Keep up the great work! - Erick Ellison, Lynn, MA
- I
was awed by y'alls' work. Hats off - Rick, Asherton, Texas
- This
is a great web site, very interesting. I am glad to see people from out of state
are enjoying it, too. - Michael J. Deel, Austin
- (Texas
Escapes) is truly awesome, first class, second to none...WOW!. - Carlos A.
Arche, M.D. Harlingen, Texas
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