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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.Looking for a local place to get some Western-style boots for the kids during your visit to Austin? Try Allens Boots on South Congress Avenue; the area is often referred to by the trendy term SoCo and when you’re ready to kick up your boot heels, there are fun, funky and family-friendly

Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.Sure, some would say that a steakhouse experience is wasted on young kids, but I think they need to learn what a really amazing steak tastes like (and it’s never too early to start.) The Cattlemen’s Steakhouse in Fort Worth‘s historic Stockyards District is one of

Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Way back in 2006, I wrote a post on this blog entitled “Why the bleep would I want to go there?”
In it, I wrote about taking the kids to visit places that seem crummy, but really aren’t, and how you can’t have an opinion about seemingly crummy places unless

Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.In my tourism training hat, people often ask me about the utility of location-based services like Gowalla and Foursquare.
Here’s an example of why they’re so handy….
I was speaking in Houston at the TFEA (Texas Festivals and Events Association) annual conference,

Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.I was cleaning out the garage the other day and dusted off various pieces of travel gear plus our tent – it is in pristine condition because, well, we never use it.
The thought of camping with kids in the August heat in Texas is simply not appealing, unless we were to drive a bunch of [...]

Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.Breaking news….
….stingrays have very soft little vacuum-cleaner mouths.
I know this because when SeaWorld San Antonio hosted a group of Texas-based bloggers this past week, they took many of us on one of their educational tours (available to any visitor) to see some

Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.The Monument Cafe is located right off of the very attractive courthouse square town center in Georgetown, Texas (just north of Austin.)
It’s a restaurant that looks all curvy and Art Deco but was really purpose-built and is quite modern in sensibility, including free WiFi and

An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.You know how it is in restaurants with little kids; you need to get seated quickly, get the food quickly and one parent ends up doing the “toddler-chase” while the other one bolts down the contents of his or her plate.
A good noise level to drown out the occasional squawking

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,