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I’ve always wanted to fly. Not on some sort of aircraft or balloon, or hanging from a kite or parachute. Just me, floating above the earth.
So I did. You can, too.
Just drop in to iFLY in Austin and in no time you will be ascending aloft.
“It was designed by skydivers for skydivers,” says Robert Holmes, operations manager at the Austin facility.
The Indian Lodge in Fort Davis is one of the few lodging facilities in Texas that visitors specifically seek out, with an allure as powerful as the scenic park it’s in.
“The lodge itself is a destination,” says Indian Lodge Assistant Manager Jim Cisneros. “The lodge talks to you.
You’ve never seen anything like this before.
A full size submarine bursts through a lawn on Austin Street in Fredericksburg, its bow and conning tower impressive and visible while the remainder of the boat remains under the lawn and out of sight.
Beyond the sub is a mast from an old U.S.
Footsteps when there’s no one about, an orb of light, sounds of people or animals, recurring, strange events . . . it’s not whether you believe or you don’t, whether there’s scientific evidence one way or the other, whether ghosts or paranormal activity can be proven . . .
July’s arrival not only means a much-anticipated national patriotic celebration and warmer weather but also a surge in the number of people converging on the town of Medina in Bandera County, mainly because of apples.
“There’s nothing better than picking and eating a ‘hot,’ unrefrigerated apple right off the tree,” says Bryan Hutzler, who – along with wife Stacie – superintends Love Creek Orchards on the southern outskirts of Medina, year-round population of approxi ...
There’s really no doubt that barbecue is best served in the greatest place on Earth – the Texas Hill Country, of course!
It would take lots and lots of road trips to be able to sample some from every single restaurant serving up the smoky, juicy good stuff, but that’s a challenge I’d be willing to take!
The First Texas Olive Oil Company at Bella Vista Ranch in Wimberley was, indeed, the first commercially producing olive orchard in the state.
They’ve been producing olives since 1998 and pressing fresh oils since 2001, which doesn’t seem like a very long time. Most potential olive farmers were frightened off by experts who believed Texas could not successfully grow olive orchards.
In Texas we do things right. It’s just who we are. And when it comes to our BBQ, that standard is our battle cry.
David Herrera, owner of Dave’s Old Fashioned BBQ in Fredericksburg, Texas is always up by the crack of dawn. He doesn’t see what he does as work, because he loves what he does.
What he does is barbeque and he does it right.
At 5am David and his pit man are building a fire, from the mesquite wood stacked along the back fe ...
ADVERTISING, THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY
As a very young kid, I remember seeing what are now the iconic Burma Shave signs alongside some of the roads our family travelled. In the days before billboards, regulations and all sorts of other restrictions, folks drummed-up business in a wide variety of ways.
