Why Texans Make Lousy Gamblers
This information may come as news to you, but casino owners have been banking on it for years.
This information may come as news to you, but casino owners have been banking on it for years.
In the world of skiing, one man’s mountain is another man’s molehill.
Even in the barren wilderness of West Texas there are a few places where you can feel at home on the range.
The great Canadian railway bizarre.
If there’s no room at these inns, you might as well stay home.
The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down and there are little bits of Texas all over the place.
Will there always be a Europe?
The best places to study Spanish in Mexico.
Four hundred and fifty years ago Texas was claimed for Spain by an adventurer who was washed ashore, naked and starving, on the beach at Galveston. Cabeza de Vaca was promptly made a slave by the vile, cannibalistic, and otherwise inhospitable Karankawa Indians. For the next 300 years (more than
Cool off this summer with a dip into one of the state‘s best old-fashioned swimming holes.
Climbing the social ladder, and other exercises at Hill Country summer camps.
Austin is trading old houses for new offices. The City Council calls it progress.
Enthusiastic railway passengers maintain that fast is not necessarily the same as best.
Across Yucatan on pennies a day. An intrepid traveler reports.
Four seldom visited areas of Texas prove to be proudly beautiful and almost inaccessible.
You can travel with children. A whole world out there is waiting ... with a smirk.
JUSTICE IN EL PASO Southern California mystery writer Ross McDonald in his best book, The Goodby Look, has his world-weary private eye hero Lew Archer lament, “I have a secret passion for mercy . . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.” Richard Wheatley’s justice for filing
Try something different next time you head West.
Mothers and fathers in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston can explore an exciting concept with their children: the city as playground.
Future-Shocking ExhibitionHouston’s Contemporary Arts museum takes the prize again for the new and different in experimental art. Beginning sometime in mid-December (the opening date had not been selected at press time) the museum will present the combined efforts of the futuristic-oriented Ant Farm, NASA, and the Texas Medical Center, in
Our travel guide, in search of the perfect taco, wanders along the 1248 mile border between Texas and Mexico. He wines, dines, and occasionally sightsees.
Some recommendations on what to do, see and buy this month.
October is the month to pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and head to the sea.
Fiddle-FaddleFiddler’s festival? A hillside field and a lake would be the perfect setting. But now they’ve covered it over with a shopping center and a parking lot.Seminary South isn’t country heaven, but it’s all right for a shopping center—it has lots of grass and flowers and trees and fountains. And
Try one of these extended weekend trips. You'll know you've left home.
Cute Toot-TootAmtrak notwithstanding, countless unfulfilled railroad buffs still reside in Texas.For these unsatiated appetites, a genuine “little railroad that could” still makes daily runs in East Texas. The Moscow, Camden & San Augustine Railroad was begun in 1927 as passenger service between the sawmill town of Camden and the railroad
Indulgences include skydiving, puppet shows, hikes, massages, float trips, entertainment for kids, and blizzards. Blizzards?
Comic Relief The 1970’s have Peanuts, the 1860’s had Dickens’ latest novel, but in the 1920’s and ’30’s nothing could quite match the goings-on in Krazy Kat, George Herriman’s celebrated comic strip. Millions of inveterate fans (including President Woodrow Wilson) followed the daily adventures of the noble-minded, simple-minded Kat, his cynical,
Over the Sierras to Topolobampo and back by the headiest of Mexican railroads.
Hello, ColumbusTWO EGGS. A PATTIE OF HOMEMADE sausage as big as a hamburger. Three large homemade biscuits. Grits. All the butter and jelly you want. Coffee. Add up the bill for that breakfast, if you could even order it, at The Holiday Inn, Nickerson Farms or any of a hundred
Wandering through the strangest neighborhood east of the Pecos.
Revolting FilmsIf you liked Che Guevara, you’ll love the Third World Film Series being shown at the University of Texas in Austin. There is nothing Hollywood about these films, and their technique leaves something to be desired; but if you want to know what filmmakers from the Third World are
THE EARTH MOVEDIf an elderly gentleman approaches you in a bar and offers to bet the price of an evening’s drink that there is a connection between the surface temperature of Venus and Noah’s ark, you might be inclined to make the wager. But do not bet, my child, for
ONCE UPON A TIME VACATIONS were like Christmas. Vacation was the once-a-year, eagerly awaited catharsis, the big pay-off for 50 weeks of bringing in the bread. Trouble was that after two weeks on the road with the family, two dogs and grape jelly smeared on the windows, you returned home
A grand old opry in Mason, a homestyle bakery in Llano, a cabin with a view of the Sabinal Canyon, and sixteen other things I love about the Hill Country.
From dog parks and swimming holes to picnic spots and close encounters with a llama, our favorite outdoor activities keep you busy year-round.
How to eat easy, play hard, and sleep well in the Davis mountains.
African masks, two old steam locomotives, Lady Bird's childhood home—and miniature donkeys.