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50 Things We Love About Texas
October 23, 2012 by Rex Vogel · 11 Comments
1. Texas Hospitality
2. Paso Del Rio, or River Walk, the Jewel of the City (San Antonio)
3. Fresh from the Gulf shrimp and oysters
When in the Clear Lake/Galveston area we head for Rose’s in Seabrook for a supply of shrimp. © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
4. Exploring the pine and hardwood forests of the Piney Woods of East Texas
5. Saying howdy
6. The Alamo
7. Texas’ wide open spaces
8. Hiking Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, north of Fredericksburg
9. Tex-Mex, especially in far South Texas
10. The way small-town drivers wave to everyone they pass
11. The timeless beauty of Presidio La Bahía near Goliad, and its rural setting
12. Stopping for lunch at almost any small-town BBQ joint and sitting elbow-to-elbow with folks you have little in common with except that you all love good ‘cue
13. Blue Bell Ice Cream. Wow!
14. The wind-swept, dynamic rippling sandscapes in Monahans Sandhills State Park is one-of-a-kind
15. Stopping for kolaches at a small-town bakery
16. Driving the winding road to Chisos Basin in Big Bend National Park
Enchanted Rock State Natural Area is a huge, pink granite exfoliation dome, that rises 425 feet above ground. © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
17. Feeling at home everywhere we go in the state
18. Bird watching in the numerous state parks and national wildlife refuges of the Rio Grande Valley
19. Chunky salsa with plenty of heat!
20. San Jacinto Battleground Monument and Battleship Texas state historic sites
21. Texas music with Willie, Waylon, and the boys…
22. Millions of gallons of crystal-clear, cold water bubbling up from the San Solomon Springs at Balmorhea State Park in West Texas
23. Tex-Mex Enchiladas
24. Exploring the pretty towns, rolling hills, wineries, dude ranches, beautiful lakes, historic attractions, and cool caves of the Hill Country
25. The wildflowers
26. Friendly Texans—who smile and never hesitate to give out directions when you’re lost
27. Touring Galveston, the “Island of Endless History”
28. Margaritas—frozen, on-the-rocks, or martini-style (with salt!)
29. Summer weather in the middle of winter
30. Touring the Bluebell factory in Brenham. Especially in the spring when the wildflowers are blooming.
31. Nine-unit World Birding Center which stretches across 127 miles of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, South Padre Island northwest to Roma
32. Breakfast tacos
Entrance to Galveston’s Strand Historic District, the city’s primary commercial area during the second half of the 19th century, when its star was bright and full of great promise. © Rex Vogel, all rights reserved
33. The sign in Hondo that says “This is God’s Country, Please Don’t Drive Through it Like Hell.”
34. Photogenic Guadalupe Mountains and namesake national park area earns a thumbs-up
35. Pecan pralines
36. Being amazed by the subtle colors—red, white, yellow, gray, and lavender—that arise from the claystone, sandstone, gypsum, and mudstone of the panhandle plains at Palo Duro Canyon State Park, the “Grand Canyon of Texas”
37. Shopping H-E-B (Here Everything’s Better)
38. Sense of wit that shines through in town names like Paris, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, and Earth, as well as Uncertain, Utopia, Happy, Friendship, Veribest, and Needmore. Let’s not forget Cut and Shoot. Oh, there’s so many more!
39. Pecans and all the goodies made from them
40. Small towns decked out for Christmas
41. HEB salsa/picante sauce with the round HEB corn chips.
42. Saying Howdy and Ya’ll
43. Picturesque Rockport-Fulton and Corpus Christi on the Texas Riviera
44. Bluebell Pecan Praline ice cream
45. Kemah Boardwalk and its Christmas Boat Parade
46. Texas ruby red grapefruit
47. A 26,800-acre cypress swamp with Spanish moss dripping from ancient cypress trees limbs, Caddo Lake may be Texas’ most magical and mysterious place
48. Touring and taste-sampling at the “Little Brewery in Shiner”
49. Bandera, the “Cowboy Capital of the World” and one of the prettiest areas in the Hill Country
50. Texas Spoken Friendly
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Worth Pondering…
Wasn’t Born in Texas, But Got Here as Fast as I Could
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Howdy Rex,
Yep, we do too, also! That's why we stay!
We've lived in Texas since 1969 when I got out of the AF and had no desire to go back to NY after living with yankees and Texans. I fell in love with Texas years ago. We left the heat this last spring to go workamp on the cool Oregon coast at Gold Beach this spring, and are now back at Lake Georgetown, Texas…..so GOOD TO BE HOME!
We've lived in Texas since 1969 when I got out of the AF. I had no desire to return to NY after living with Yankees vs Texans. We left this spring to work at Gold Beach, Oregon for the summer, but we are SO HAPPY TO BE BACK HOME at Lake Georgetown near Austin. I've experienced most of these 50 things. Texas is great and it's been good to me.
Texas is where my heart is…and always will be. There's just something about this state and the people that make it home.
I AGREE!
I AGREE!
I left Texas in '67 to go into the military and have visited often since. In my travels my home is and always will be Texas…I take it with me wherever I go.
I left Texas in '67 to go into the military and have visited often since. In my travels my home is and always will be Texas…I take it with me wherever I go.
That idea is alive up here in Nebraska…..
you betcha Sailor!!!