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Sep 27 2018

San Antonio south of Southtown – where to eat and drink

San-Antonio-South-of-Southtown-690x400 San Antonio south of Southtown - where to eat and drinkDiscovering San Antonio, south of Southtown helped me fall back in love with the Alamo City. Or more accurately, it took determining where to eat and drink in San Antonio south of Southtown to reignite the passion!

Be honest. Hasn’t the idea of San Antonio started to look better on paper than in person? Especially once the kids were grown, and we were no longer proudly showing them where the heroes of the Alamo fell. Or watching them feed the ducks on the Riverwalk while us grownups huddled under an umbrella, enjoying frozen margaritas and a plate of nachos.

Losing the  love for San Antonio Riverwalk

Once I quit seeing it all through my kids’ eyes, I couldn’t push aside being pissy over the traffic and the souvenir shops and the chain restaurants. The Hard Rock Café, Landry’s Seafood, Saltgrass Grill and Rainforest Café were as romantic and authentic as Disneyland.

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Filed Under: Central Texas, Food, Home Top, Places, San Antonio, Texas · Tagged: Southtown

Aug 10 2018

Plan to be flexible | #1 Lesson from Rally Recovery Drink | Texas startup success

 

Texas-Rally-Recovery-Drink-takes-off-with-plan-to-be-flexible-690x400 Plan to be flexible | #1 Lesson from Rally Recovery Drink | Texas startup successI’ve learned from some famous people that if you want to succeed in life, you must plan to be flexible. So flexible that you are open to success that may be absolutely nothing like what you thought it was going to be.

Like former Texas governor Mark White learned after his political career tanked and he went on to become a champion of education. Or the Texas Fruitcake queen learned when she raised up a baking empire from a need to spend time with her daughters. 

Or Eric and Alex, high school friends from Houston, who about to blow up the rehydration market with Rally Recovery Drink, a product developed from what they learned nursing hangovers at LSU. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Home Top, Live Like An Eternal Traveler, People · Tagged: Rally Recovery Drink

Aug 02 2018

Five Ways to Do Port Aransas Right | One Year After Hurricane Harvey

 

5-ways-to-do-Port-Aransas-right-one-year-after-hurricane-690x400 Five Ways to Do Port Aransas Right | One Year After Hurricane HarveyPort Aransas has mostly recovered after the worst hurricane season in U.S. history.  I was down on the island recently and did a little scouting.  Based on that visit, it’s time to put out an update with five ways to do Port Aransas right… a year after Hurricane Harvey.

Sadly, some beloved spaces are only sweet memories.  Yet other hangouts seem comfortably the same with just a little evidence of storm-related upgrades.   Like when your grandma changes her lipstick color.  And the Key West of Texas vibe is still strong. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Coastal Texas, Home Top, Places, Port Aransas, Texas · Tagged: belt sander races, Dancing Dunes

May 02 2018

5 Reasons to visit Big Bend National Park

 

If you have not visited  Big Bend National Park, I’m going to give you five compelling reasons to pick a date and go.  These reasons drove my son and me over 600 miles across the state of Texas to experience an incredible adventure in this isolated wedge of the US.  You can skip ahead to that story here.Whether you are a native, transplanted or temporary Texan, the true west still waits for you at Big Bend National Park
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#1 Big Bend National Park is large and lonely.

Whether you find Big Bend National Park hauntingly beautiful or beautifully frightening depends on how enamored you are with neighbors and nearby conveniences.  This isolated area about the size of Rhode Island is one of the largest, most remote, and least-visited national parks in the lower forty-eight United States.    [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Big Bend Area, Home Top, National Parks, Places, Texas · Tagged: cajun country

Feb 05 2018

Sam Houston – modern lessons for contemporary times

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Never-call-Sam-Houston-a-coward-690x400 Sam Houston - modern lessons for contemporary timesA few weeks ago, I wrote about a lunch I had with former Texas governor Mark White several months before he died.  One of the things we found we had in common was almost evangelical respect for Sam Houston. 

A few weeks ago,  I found out about a new biography on the last days of Sam Houston.  So on my  Facebook page, I posted these words, “The more I learn about Sam Houston, the more he inspires me. We camp every April in Sam Houston State Park which is just a few miles from his last home, now a tremendous museum. Statesman, drunkard, war hero, coward, Texas governor kicked to the curb and at the end of it all, a man truly trying to do the best he could. I’ll be interested to read this book.” [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Attitude, Home Top, People · Tagged: Sam Houston

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