Posts Tagged ‘Cool Family Stuff in Texas’

Travel Guide:My travel goal: one new local place or event per month

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Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.I don’t know about you, but I’ve kinda run out of travel gas.
Not for me (I’ll jump onto a plane or into a car anytime by my own crotchety self) but the idea of a family trip these days makes me want to lay down and take a nap.
Squabbling siblings in the back seat.
One kid [...]

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Travel Information:Photo of the Week: rather massive brownies at Rather Sweet Bakery

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Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas. I know, it’s food overload this time of year, but how can you miss when it’s slab-sized brownies?
These are from the Rather Sweet Bakery in German-tinged Fredericksburg, Texas.
It’s tucked behind the historic building where Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz was born,

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World Travel Guide:Tis the season for gingerbread pigs

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Well, not really gingerbread (they’re usually made with molasses) but they ARE shaped like pigs!  I don’t think they’re just a holiday item, either, but since it’s December, I’ll offer them as a Gingerbread Man alternative that I found in my local Juarez

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Travel Information:Driving backroads beats the tar out of the Interstate

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Those who drive long stretches of most US Interstate highways know that, while you’ll get there faster and there might be some good places to pull off, it will be a mostly boring trip. Fast, efficient, but boring. If you decide to jump off on a backroad (see William Least Heat-Moon’s

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Travel Guide:The annual search for bank robber Sam Bass

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Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Part of the annual Round Rock, Texas Frontier Days July 4 celebration is a fun costumed reenactment of the 1878 Sam Bass Shootout. The infamous bank robber Sam Bass was fatally shot by lawmen in Round Rock, and his name is plastered on things all over town including my son’s

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Online Travel Guide:Family travel in Texas: the 50 state series

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An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.Every Tuesday until we run out of states, I plan to post about family-friendly vacation ideas, attractions and events in each one of the US states, taking input mostly from Twitter and Facebook. Yes, I know how to search for travel ideas on a destination or attraction Web site, but

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