Texas Trip Guides
May 1, 2014
Trip Guide: Galveston
Plan a kid-friendly summertime weekend through this historic city by the sea using this guide with tips on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay.
Texas Trip Guides
May 1, 2014
Trip Guide: Travaasa Austin
Plan a summertime weekend at this luxurious (and kid-free!) adult summer camp.
The Wanderer
November 14, 2013
InstaTexas: Looks Like Fall
It's officially leaf-peeping season. Here's where to catch the spectacular spoils of fall.
The Wanderer
July 19, 2013
Ask the Wanderer: South Congress And Beyond
Jordan, Hey. I’m heading to Austin at the end of July and—having worked at Philadelphia magazine for a few years—I figured reaching out to you would be the best way to figure out what to do. A few college friends and I will be visiting a…
The Wanderer
April 5, 2013
The Texas To-Do List: Take a Glass-Bottom Boat Tour of Aquarena Springs
From the bustling cities to the Piney Woods and West Texas deserts, no state has as much to offer travelers as Texas. I keep an ever-growing Texas To-Do list; here’s one of my many entries. Last May, cranes lifted a 480-ton theater out of the San Marcos River.
The Wanderer
April 4, 2013
Ask the Wanderer: Best Texas Town to Live In? (The Votes Are In!)
Last week, I asked for a little help answering a California reader’s query about where in Texas he and his family should relocate. I was very happy to read all of your thoughtful comments, as well as the responses on Twitter and Facebook.
The Wanderer
March 21, 2013
Ask The Wanderer: Best Texas Town to Live In?
Help some poor Californians out (figuratively and literally).
The Wanderer
March 20, 2013
The Texas To-Do List: Visit the Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center
Spring is here, and with it another entry for the Texas To-Do List: meet one of Texas's oldest living things, a 1,230 year-old cypress tree growing in Orange. …
Eat My Words
February 12, 2013
Valentine’s Comes Early: Bon Appètit Loves Austin
Three Austin establishments landed on the food magazine’s list of the twenty most important restaurants of America.
The Wanderer
January 30, 2013
Calling All Weekend Wanderers
In Texas Monthly’s inaugural issue (forty years ago this month, in February 1973), writer Richard West exhorted “weekend wanderers” to pack up and embrace the three-day vacation. “With a little imagination, planning, and a basic Texas road map,” he wrote, “a very real quality of leisure…