Category Archives: Texas

Don’t Mess with Texas’ Beers

    When people think of the regions where great American craft beer is brewed, they usually think of the West Coast, the Northeast and the Great Lakes region.  Texas and the Southwest are typically not thought of as great beer regions. In fact when people think of beer in Texas, Corona, Tecate and Shiner Bock are [...]
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More Texas Craziness – Castles of Junk

Wild animals sticking their heads inside your rental car isn’t the only odd part about Texas. Take a look at this three-story Cathedral of Junk we visited in the the suburbs of Austin. It’s part La Sagrada Familia, part ornate, suburban playground (the wooden kind that came into vogue in Ohio circa 1992).  
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Where Wild West Meets the Wild

  I’ve never been to Texas before. I had been warned that it is a country on to itself. When I visited my brother — a new San Antonio resident — over Christmas and New Years, I found that to be percisely true. The two hour drive from San Antonio to Austin showed us exactly the [...]
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