When you’re looking for things to do in Texas during those warm summer months you don’t have to limit yourself just to tourist sights with air conditioning. Not surprisingly, some of the best places to keep cool also involve spending quality time on the water. And while Texas might hav...

While many parts of the nation bundle up come winter months, the state of Texas stays comparably mild. Sure, in recent years there’s the occasional surprise snow flurry here and there, but that should do nothing to deter you from putting this Gulf Coast state down on your list of places to b...

At over 800,000 acres of mountain, desert and winding river, Big Bend National Park has sprawl enough to offer a wide variety of outdoor opportunities. Sure, some of them might require a little sweat equity but for the effort, you’ll be rewarded with an intimate glimpse of this intriguing park along...

If you grew up reading Louis L’Amour books about the Wild West, your romantic notions about the Lone Star State might run more towards dusty cattle drives than the bright, cosmopolitan lights of San Antonio. So when it comes time to make that trip to Texas and weed through a long list of Tex...

A really horrible stay in a bad Texas hotel could potentially fuel your nightmares for weeks. No question, noises in the night from the neighboring room, a hot water shortage, bed bugs and dirty sheets are the stuff bad dreams are made of. But what if you want to be haunted? By the ghostly of cour...

You know that old ditty about building your house on sandy land? When it comes to South Padre Island, Texas, you’ll see why enterprising hoteliers have chosen to ignore this advice. This sandy barrier island off the southern side of Texas’s Gulf Coast has beach, lots of it and a mostly mild humid su...