Day Trips

Annual Bertram Olde Tyme Christmas festival will be held on November 29, 2014. Avoid the crowds in the malls and come to our all handcrafted festival in Bertram. There will be Live Music, Antique Car Show, Children's games, food and Santa in the park. A professional photographer will be there to take pictures with Santa.

Of all the holiday events planned, expect the Gillespie County Historical Society, Pioneer Museum 57th Annual Holiday Home Tour to be among the most irresistible. Benefiting the Gillespie County Historical Society, Pioneer Museum. 'Tis the season when Fredericksburg captivates you with seven homes. Each bring sophisticated beauty and festive holiday spirit.

For more than 50 years, New Braunfels has been celebrating all things sausage, ever since Mayor Ed Grist conceived an idea to boost the local economy. The first year Wurstfest was held, in 1961, around 2,000 people attended. Within five years, the festival had grown from a one day event to a 10-day event drawing more than 35,000 people to the popular event. Today, Wurstfest has become a tradition for families, both those who make the trek in November to the Wurstfest grounds in Landa Park, as w ...

Of the thousands of people who take up residence in the Hill Country each year, many have been home brewers, that breed of men and women who have the urge to create what they like to drink. When that passion turns to wanting everyone else to share in the fruits of their labors, it was only natural that they would start serving up beer in the towns they call home. Fred Hernandez and his wife Jennifer, former mechanical and chemical engineers respectively, fell into the homebrew scene with a simp ...

What do you get when you cross beer, a singer/songwriter and honey? Robert Earl Keen Honey Pils, of course! It was a case of serendipity that the three came together, but for Robert Earl Keen and Lee Hereford, it just made sense. That's Robert Earl Keen, Texas singer and songwriter, who, for the last 25 years has called the Hill Country his home.

The legend says, "Build it and they will come." That's what happened to the Salt Lick barbecue restaurant. In 1967, Thurman Roberts dragged his heel in a circle in a field beside a back country road out in the middle of nowhere. He built a barbecue pit in that circle. "People would drive by and smell the barbecue smoke and stop to buy some to take home,"

For the intrepid traveler uncowed by crowds of scarecrows, eager for authentic antiques or enthusiastically enticed by the "verities of the vine" – not to mention just looking for a great time – Comfort is the place to be! Each October (traditionally a festive month), this charming old German town, known for its history, hospitality and Hill Country quaintness, welcomes one and all with multiple fun (and fanciful) fall-oriented doings guaranteed to keep attendees coming back year after year ...

As a boy, John Phalen sometimes took the overnight train from Buffalo to Chicago to visit his aunt. "Bedroom B was mine," he tells visitors, who are seated at triangular tables in the same sleeper-lounge car that once carried him along the tracks of the Nickel Plate Road in the 1960s.

Gourmet and specialty food trucks have become more popular in recent years. Food truck vendors can share their must-try flavors while finding an easier investment and more flexible schedule, and they are able to go to their customers instead of waiting patiently for them to arrive. Given the benefits of the mobile restaurant, why then did Matt Wigglesworth and Shelton Coleman, owners of Lot 102 in Johnson City, decide to park it? Shelton had originally brought home the food truck with the idea ...

The fun and excitement of a carnival midway joins a stock show, barbecue and bean cook-offs and bull-riding at the 35th Annual Kerr County Fair in Kerrville on October 24-26. Add a petting zoo, mutton busting, stick horse races, nightly dances and vendors galore, and you'll find something to interest everyone in the family.