by Julia Hayden
There are two ways to get from one place to another: if you just need to be at your destination, then of course you take the highway. It’s fast, efficient, usually direct . . . and rather dull. The other way is if the journey …
I know, I know – the talk of Texas wine a couple of years ago would make people flash back to the Monty Python sketch about Australian wine - “Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavored Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup …
by Julia Hayden
I think most people, when they have a mental vision of an Army fort on the far western American frontier, think of a wooden stockade of standing timber – but that was not much the case in Texas …
Harper is one of those quintessential small unincorporated Texas Hill Country towns, strung out the length of a single Main Street – which at either end becomes US Route 290. A tiny grid of blocks, a small park, in between where half a dozen ranch …
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For Christmas, I would like for someone to give me a t-shirt that says “As a matter of fact I am not a $#@!ing tourist, I live here!” - but my daughter Blondie says that would be rather too hostile. And …
So, once the Halloween decorations were sorted out and put away, we could think of nothing better to do than to drive up to New Braunfels on Sunday morning to join in the Wurstfest 2009 celebration. What better place, and what better …
The Magik Children's Theatre's curtain opens to Room 207 at an elementary school, where the rowdiest, loudest, rudest and most misbehaved students are paying no attention to their teacher, Miss Nelson. She is a sweet, kind, soft-spoken educator. She asks …
Join us in a modern day treasure hunt in Texas State Parks
WHAT IS GEOCACHING?
Geocaching is a type of treasure hunt using a GPS unit to help you find hidden "caches" placed by people all over the world. Geocaches are everywhere - from just down the street …
The good thing about San Antonio being so far inland is that - well, those hurricanes which hit the Texas Gulf coast are usually pretty well diminished to a stiff breeze and a lot of rain by the time they hit San Antonio. The bad …
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So, when we went to the yearly San Antonio Herb Market last Saturday, now that it has relocated from under the Oak trees at Aggie Park, to a splendid market-square venue around in back of the old Pearl Brewery stable building ... and what …