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Texas Is Not One Place — It Is Several Countries Packed Into a Single State Most people picture Texas as one thing: cowboys, heat, and flat land. The reality is that a single state contains Gulf Coast beaches, Chihuahuan Desert, limestone hill country thick with wildflowers, pine forests in the east, and four major cities […]
The Highway Tells You Everything Before You Even Arrive You land in Austin, pick up the keys at the rental counter, and pull out of the airport onto the highway. Within ten minutes, the scale of it hits you. The sky is bigger here — not metaphorically, literally bigger, because the land is flat enough […]
Most travelers fly into Austin or Dallas, glance at the hotel rates near the airport, and immediately assume Texas is going to cost them. The stadiums, the resort towns, the steakhouses charging $80 for a cut of beef — Texas has built a reputation as a place where everything runs expensive. That reputation is not […]
Texas Is Not One Place — It Is Several Countries Packed Into a Single State Most people picture Texas as one thing: cowboys, heat, and flat land. The reality is that a single state contains Gulf Coast beaches, Chihuahuan Desert, limestone hill country thick with wildflowers, pine forests in the east, and four major cities […]