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Hill Country Map Quest

Hill Country Map Quest

When it comes to choosing a getaway, the Hill Country doesn’t have to campaign hard for our affections. Its lush expanses of bounding green hills and serpentine rivers stretch over some 25 of the most idyllic counties in the state. By Jordan Breal

Walking the Ground

Walking the Ground

When we packed up and left Kentucky for Texas the second go-round, I was in high school, and this time we moved to Austin, a green and hilly city with lakes for sailing and an icy spring-fed pool for swimming. Those old years in Midland seemed like long-ago postcards sending bits of lore. This time I settled in, went to the university, got married, had my family, and—in time, a mighty long time as I recall it—became a Texas writer. By Shelby Hearon

On the Road—Westbound and Down

My hazy memories of the greatest post college, freewheeling road trip ever.

Homeward Bound

What have I learned while living in New Jersey for more than a decade? That I want to die with my boots on, back in Texas. By Bryan Burrough

The Texanist

A fond look back at Temple, a.k.a. Ratsville and/or Tanglefoot, that fair burg wherein your dedicated advice columnist learned the location of the thin line between right and wrong.

Street Smart in Austin

Update your wardrobe, slurp down oysters, and nab novel curios along the Capital City’s hippest byway, South Congress Avenue.

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