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"If you want to have a good time, I don't care where you live, just load in your kids and take some congenial friends and start out. You would be surprised what there is to see in this great country within 200 miles of where any of us live. I don't care what state or town." - Will Rogers

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Texas Day Trips & Weekend Getaways:

World Heritage Sites in Texas:

	San Antonio Missions by Byron Browne Beginning two and a half miles south of downtown San Antonio there are four eighteenth century missions along what the National Parks Service refers to as the �Mission Trail�...

Texas Trips by Themes:

Texas Trips by Interests:

	Out of My Shell at South Padre by Jase Graves "[W]hen my family and I were on vacation at South Padre Island recently, I jumped at the chance to witness a release of newly hatched Kemp's ridley sea turtles by Sea Turtle, Inc....."

	Mariscal Mine "Deep inside" Big Bend National Park on Mariscal Mountain. A National Register Historic District.

	Prada Marfa by Luke Warm Photos courtesy Lizette Kapre, Ballroom Marfa, and the Art Production Fund. West Texas gets a Long-Overdue Infusion of Whimsy by German-based Artists

• Palo Duro's Enduring Pageant by Mike Cox
  "The show debuted in 1966 and grew into a summer tradition. Thanks to news media exposure, local marketing efforts and old-fashioned word of mouth, the pageant�s reputation built with each passing season. In recent years, USA Today included it in its �Top 10 Must See Theaters in America� and the American Bus Association�s �Top 100 Attractions in North America.�
  An estimated 4 million people have viewed the pageant over the last 50 years. In recent seasons, the show�s three-month run (six days a week with Mondays off) has drawn about 65,000 annually. "

	Williams Ranch by Barclay Gibson Guadalupe Mountains National Park Culberson County

	Ignoring Warning Signs by Barclay Gibson Searching for the �Buried Here�1936 Texas Centennial marker �Warren Wagon Train Massacre�

	Searching for the Pulaski Historical Marker by Barclay Gibson Where to start describing how I visited the five foot tall granite 1936 Panola County Centennial Historical Marker for the defunct town site of Pulaski, former seat of Panola County?

	Ghost Counties of Texas Vintage maps courtesy TGLO Buchel and Foley Counties, Greer County, Wegefarth County, Encinal County, Perdido County, Worth County, and the First Dawson County

A Tour of Dog-Trots by Bob Bowman If you�re a fan of dog-trot houses--and know what they are--here is an opportunity you shouldn�t miss. The SFA Gardens of Stephen F. Austin State University will host a tour of two historic Shelby County dog-trot homes... In Plain Sight by Ken & Yvonne Rudine A Sunday drive from Rockport to Houston Lasting Impressions by Rick Vanderpool & Sami Simpson Flying over Llano Estacado

	Finding the Polancio Grave Marker by Barclay Gibson Back in the 1870s a stage was attacked by Indians and a man, Jose Maria Palacios, was killed. He was buried right where he fell, at the base of the Peak and a crude rock slab had the information scratched on it...

	Bluffton Reappears by Mike CoxAt this writing, the normally sprawling Lake Buchanan is only 51 per cent full... While a few traces of the Old Bluffton have become visible, most of it is still under water... Driving Around with Bonnie and Clyde by Robin Cole-Jett A Road Tripper's Guide to Gangster Sites in Middle America

• Camino Real National Scenic Byway by Delbert Trew
  The old road "Camino Real" or Royal Road may not be the oldest road in America but was completed in 1598... It begins at the San Juan Pueblo in northern New Mexico, goes 400 miles south to El Paso then on another 1,200 miles to Mexico City. The U.S. designated it a National Scenic Byway...

The L-O-N-G Roads of Texas: Texas-State-Highway-16 by C. F. Eckhardt
Texas� state highways are some of the most interesting ways to travel. They pass through�not go around�interesting communities of every sort. The towns are both beautiful�sometimes (and sometimes not so beautiful)�and often historically interesting. The two longest state highways in Texas are Highway 16 and Highway 6. Both cut across scenic and historically significant parts of the state...

	Route 77: �The Padre Road� Victoria, Texas to the Rio Grande Valley Seven Bridges, Five Rivers, Two Creeks and One Interesting Drive

	Zedler's Mills After nearly four decades, Zedler's Mills is revealed from Nature's green cloak.

	Highland Lakes and Dams Dams: Tom Miller Dam, Mansfield Dam, Max Starke Dam, Wirtz Dam, Inks Dam and Buchanan Dam Lakes: Lake Austin, Lake Travis, Lake Marble Falls, Lake LBJ, Inks lake, and Lake Buchanan

• East Texas' Burning House by Bob Bowman
  Motorists traveling along U.S. Highway 59 in Polk County are often startled to see what appears to be flames pouring from the windows of old sawmill house...

• The Chisholm Trail Rides Again by Clay Coppedge
  Anyone wanting to follow the Old Chisholm Trail through Bell County would find part of the quest relatively easy, at least as easy as driving on IH-35. The old trail roughly paralleled the Interstate from Salado to Belton. After that following the old trail might get a little trickier, though anyone who spends much time here passes or crosses it many more times than they could ever know...

• Mackenzie Trail by Clay Coppedge
  " The best of what's left of the Mackenzie Trail today is probably on private property. You're near it when you're at the intersection of U.S. 277 and Texas 6 in Stamford, where a monument tells you the trail ran a little north of there. The trail also ran between Dickens and Spur, so when you're on parts of U.S. Highway 82 from Dickens to Lubbock you're probably following Mackenzie's path pretty closely."

• The Runestone by Bob Bowman
  "East Texans willing to take the time to drive about 100 miles into eastern Oklahoma will be rewarded with a centuries-old mystery."

• Holiday Trail of Lights by Bob Bowman
  Includes Kilgore, Marshall and Jefferson in East Texas
  and Natchitoches and Shreveport in Louisiana

• Did lost colony in the Okla. Panhandle exist? by Delbert Trew
  The drive from Boise City to Black Mesa, Kenton, Folsom, then over the top of Johnson Mesa into Raton from the east is our favorite drive in the entire Texas/Oklahoma/New Mexico area.

• Coal workers suffered by Delbert Trew
  The next time you travel north toward Denver, take a break at the Ludlow Exit just north of Trinidad, Colo. A good paved road leads west about two miles to the huge and educational Ludlow Massacre Monument. I promise an interesting visit.