In my series we have traveled through all the regions of Texas. Texas is a unique state where you can travel through time by just traveling through the state. The state is full of different cultures, history, outdoor spaces and of course food and drinks waiting to be discovered. The state is full of diverse people and very different living conditions from big cities to rural farming communities to desolate ranch lands. You can pretty much do any activity you would like in this gigantic state except for winter sports like skiing. While there is a lot of good with Texas there are also issues with our state. No state…

Last but not least in our tour is another area of Texas that people do not mention or visit as often as other regions in Texas but it still has unique sites and culture. Some of our best trips have been to places people might question why we chose to visit there. I have only visited the Texas Panhandle and Texas High plains twice so far in my life. I visited Amarillo once when I was in high school and we recently visited Lubbock in May of 2021 for the first time. People asked “Why are you going to Lubbock, there is nothing there?”. Well while the high plains and…

East Texas is a vast area of forest and small cities. It is a heavily rural area with only a few larger cities like Tyler in the region. The dense forests add a different kind of beauty that you once again do not see in other regions on Texas. The region has a lot of unique things to do and has a lot of Texas history preserved in museums and historic sites. This area is home to the oldest city in Texas, a historic railroad, remnants of an ancient Native American city, a replica oil boom town, a Civil War Prisoner of War Camp, a rare Texas Casino and so…

North Texas (not the Panhandle) is a another very different region from the others in Texas. In the country side the region is full of prairies and small man made lakes (fun fact there is only one natural lake in Texas and that is Caddo Lake). This region is home to probably the most famous city in Texas and the large metroplex around it. The area is a huge business hub that is home to many fortune 500 companies. beyond the large Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex there are some nice small cities. While most of our visits to North Texas have been to Dallas and Fort Worth we have visited some…

One area we visit multiple times a year and during the pandemic there was no exception is the South-Central region of Texas. While the places in this area might be considered part of other regions for my writings I am considering South-Central Texas as areas around San Antonio, East of I-35 in Austin and West of Houston. This would include cities like San Antonio, Gonzales, Shiner, La Grange, and Schulenburg. Its areas that are not in the Hill Country but not truly on the Gulf Coast as well. We visit San Antonio and cities like La Grange every year as part of quick trips where we visit different sites. Donna…

As we continued to travel in Texas we decided to visit West Texas. We had never really traveled to West Texas and I had only been there once quite a few years ago just passing through on a drive from New Mexico to Houston. We had heard about the desolation and desert in the area and Big Bend but didn’t know a whole lot else. In September of 2020 we took a flight to Midland/Odessa and visited the large area that is West Texas. We visited the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, The George W. Bush childhood home, The Odessa Meteor Crater and the Monahan’s Sand Dune’s State Park in the…

As we started to travel safely again (we avoided contact with as many people as we could, wore our masks kept things clean) we started to branch out from the Texas Gulf Coast so we started touring places in Central Texas and the Texas Hill Country. This is an area of Texas that is a big tourism draw already but we visited some places we had been before and places that we had never seen. We started visiting Central Texas around July of 2020 and we visited Waco, Boerne, Fredericksburg and caves in the area. Things were different of course but we still had the chance to see a lot…

Over the past year and a half with international travel at a stand still as the terrible pandemic raged around the world Donna and I took a pause from international travel and instead became reacquainted with our home state. We have always traveled within Texas but never as extensively as we have done in the last year. We took a pause from travel but once we believed we could travel we started out much closer to home. Over the past year of travel within Texas we have learned more about the vast state we call home. From bustling cities to desolate desert landscapes our state is truly varied. We visited…