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TEXAS
TRIPS"If
you want to have a good time, I don't care where you live, just load in your kids
and take some congenial friends and start out. You would be surprised what there
is to see in this great country within 200 miles of where any of us live. I don't
care what state or town." - Will Rogers
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Featured Trips > | |
| Ignoring
Warning Signs by Barclay Gibson 10-1-10
Searching
for the “Buried Here”1936 Texas Centennial marker
“Warren Wagon Train Massacre”
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| Searching
for the Pulaski Historical Marker by Barclay Gibson
9-6-10
Where
to start describing how I visited the five foot tall granite 1936 Panola County
Centennial Historical Marker for the defunct town site of Pulaski, former seat
of Panola County? |
| Ghost
Counties of Texas Vintage maps courtesy TGLO 7-2-10
Buchel
and Foley Counties, Greer County, Wegefarth County, Encinal County, Perdido County,
Worth County, and the First Dawson County |
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Tour of Dog-Trots by Bob Bowman 8-15-10
If you’re a fan of dog-trot houses--and know what they are--here is an opportunity
you shouldn’t miss. The SFA Gardens of Stephen F. Austin State University will
host a tour of two historic Shelby County dog-trot homes... In
Plain Sight by Ken & Yvonne Rudine
5-1-10
A
Sunday drive from Rockport to HoustonLasting
Impressions by Rick
Vanderpool & Sami Simpson 6-26-10
Flying
over Llano Estacado |
| Finding
the Polancio Grave Marker
by Barclay Gibson 3-22-10
Back
in the 1870s a stage was attacked by Indians and a man, Jose Maria Palacios, was
killed. He was buried right where he fell, at the base of the Peak and a crude
rock slab had the information scratched on it... |
| | Bluffton
Reappears by Mike Cox
At
this writing, the normally sprawling Lake Buchanan is only 51 per cent full...
While a few traces of the Old Bluffton have become visible, most of it is still
under water...Driving
Around with Bonnie and Clyde by Robin Cole-Jett
A
Road Tripper's Guide to Gangster Sites in Middle America |
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San Antonio Missions
by Byron Browne
Beginning
two and a half miles south of downtown San Antonio there are four eighteenth century
missions along what the National Parks Service refers to as the “Mission Trail”.
This route will lead you on an afternoon’s journey through some of this country’s
few, yet greatest, antiquities... |
Camino
Real National Scenic Byway by Delbert Trew
The
old road "Camino Real" or Royal Road may not be the oldest road in America but
was completed in 1598... It begins at the San Juan Pueblo in northern New Mexico,
goes 400 miles south to El Paso then on another 1,200 miles to Mexico City. The
U.S. designated it a National Scenic Byway... |
The L-O-N-G Roads of Texas:
Texas-State-Highway-16 by C. F. Eckhardt
Texas’ state highways are some of the most interesting ways to travel. They pass
through—not go around—interesting communities of every sort. The towns are both
beautiful—sometimes (and sometimes not so beautiful)—and often historically interesting.
The two longest state highways in Texas are Highway 16 and Highway 6. Both cut
across scenic and historically significant parts of the state... |
| | Route
77: “The Padre Road”
Victoria, Texas to the Rio Grande Valley
Seven Bridges, Five Rivers, Two Creeks
and One Interesting Drive |
| | Zedler's
Mills
After nearly four decades, Zedler's Mills is revealed from Nature's green cloak.
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| | Highland
Lakes and Dams
Dams:
Tom Miller Dam, Mansfield Dam, Max Starke Dam, Wirtz Dam, Inks Dam and Buchanan
Dam
Lakes: Lake Austin, Lake Travis, Lake Marble Falls, Lake LBJ, Inks
lake, and Lake Buchanan |
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Mariscal
Mine Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone
"Deep inside" Big Bend National Park on Mariscal Mountain. A National Register
Historic District. |
East
Texas' Burning House by Bob Bowman
Motorists
traveling along U.S. Highway 59 in Polk County are often startled to see what
appears to be flames pouring from the windows of old sawmill house...The
Chisholm Trail Rides Again by Clay Coppedge
Anyone wanting to follow the
Old Chisholm Trail through Bell County would find part of the quest relatively
easy, at least as easy as driving on IH-35. The old trail roughly paralleled the
Interstate from Salado to Belton. After that following the old trail might get
a little trickier, though anyone who spends much time here passes or crosses it
many more times than they could ever know...
The Runestone
by Bob Bowman
"East Texans willing to take the time to drive about 100
miles into eastern Oklahoma will be rewarded with a centuries-old mystery."
Holiday
Trail of Lights vby Bob Bowman
Includes Kilgore, Marshall and Jefferson
in East Texas
and Natchitoches and Shreveport in Louisiana |
| | Unconventional
Travel Prada
Marfa by Luke
Warm
Photos
courtesy Lizette Kapre, Ballroom Marfa, and the Art Production Fund. West Texas
gets a Long-Overdue Infusion of Whimsy by German-based Artists |
Did
lost colony in the Okla. Panhandle exist? by Delbert Trew
11-17-10
The drive from Boise City to Black Mesa, Kenton, Folsom,
then over the top of Johnson Mesa into Raton from the east is our favorite drive
in the entire Texas/Oklahoma/New Mexico area. Coal
workers suffered by Delbert Trew 8-31-10
The next
time you travel north toward Denver, take a break at the Ludlow Exit just north
of Trinidad, Colo. A good paved road leads west about two miles to the huge and
educational Ludlow Massacre Monument. I promise an interesting visit. |
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