Texas Highways Magazine

The richness of Texas offers limitless opportunities for exploration and discovery. It can take a lifetime to experience the variety of what it has to offer, so each year in January, our editors focus on one travel intention for the year ahead. I’m r

Texans have indeed been doing wonderful things to preserve our night-sky heritage [“The Stars at Night,” December]. Your readers might be interested to know Cindy Luongo Cassidy, of Driftwood, whom you quote in the article, received the International

Retired rancher Bob Cates has been chasing the cowboy lifestyle since he was a boy. Born in the Oklahoma Panhandle, he spent his career raising cattle across the High Plains, from Oklahoma to New Mexico. In 2007, Cates and his wife, Jimmie, retired t

Rats and the middle seats of full flights. Those are my biggest fears besides death. So when I entered the abandoned building from an unlocked door and saw the colony-size bag of rodent poison on the floor, I lurched back. Rats! But I didn’t drive si

We’re at the front end of 366 days of possibilities—a brand new (leap) year ripe with the potential for adventure. Getting outdoors and trying new things can help keep you energized, maintain your physical fitness, and instill you with confidence. Te

What kind of Texan are you if you’ve never been to a rodeo? You’ve no doubt been to a football game, a barbecue, a bluebonnet patch—Texas rites of passage—but what about the most Texan thing of all? Seriously, if you’re one of the many who consider L

Austin 45 minutes San Antonio 2 hours Houston 2.75 hours Dallas 3 hours A visitor might take a look at the burgeoning street art, galleries, and music scene in Taylor and call the town “up-and-coming.” But that would be ignoring a fascinating history

NO MATTER HOW OFTEN YOU TRAVERSE THIS GREAT STATE, there’s always something new to see. Still, it can be easy to get stuck in a travel rut—visiting the same favorite towns, comfortingly familiar landscapes, and tried-and true attractions. Consider ou

IT’S NO SIMPLE TASK, following the footsteps of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, the first nonnative to step foot in Texas and live to write a book about it. First off, if you want to do it right, you’d have to do it naked. And hungry. And how do you find

CAPTAIN TAMMIE JO SHULTS WASN’T SUPPOSED TO FLY THAT PLANE THAT DAY. But her husband, Dean, a fellow Southwest Airlines pilot, knew their son had a track meet at the end of the week and Tammie Jo coached him in the throwing events. So, like he’d done

Bob Williamson flings open the hatchback of his Honda Fit, and the aroma of freshly roasted cocoa beans wafts around us. “I just returned from Third Coast Coffee,” he says, hefting a burlap sack onto his shoulder. “I roasted these in their IR-2.5 Die

HUTCH’S PIE AND SANDWICH SHOP 145 College Park Drive, Weatherford. Mon-Sat, 6 a.m.-3 p.m. 817-594-0751 You know a place is important to a community when people use it as a way to give directions. “You hear people all the time saying, ‘Well, you know

MAGNOLIA FILLING STATION 1101 Fiorella St., Castroville. Open Mon-Sat, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. 830-538-5001; facebook.com/magnoliafillingstation Even before US 90 linked the remote farming towns west of San Antonio in the 1960s, travelers could count on findin

Late-morning sunlight warms the sculpted surfaces of the Armstrong Browning Library and Museum’s bronze front doors, which bear bas-relief depictions of scenes from Robert Browning’s poems. My hand closes around the torch-shaped handle, worn shiny by

Mo Amer has a hard time remembering when he last traveled purely for fun. Sure, he’s seen plenty of places in his career as a stand-up comedian. But these last several years, he’s been working at a supersonic pace, with little time to relax. So when