Texas Highways – September 2019

ON THE COVER

Photo by Kenny Braun

Shot in Downtown McAllen

Featuring

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BY W.K. STRATTON

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DEPARTMENTS

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Merge

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Sightseer

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My Hometown

Shelley Wayne kicks up her

heels for Kilgore

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Open Road

At a hotel bar, you can be

whoever you want to be

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Drive/Made in Texas

Bhutanese architecture in

El Paso

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Drive/Stay

Slither over to this snake-

happy motel in Sanderson

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Drive/Detour

The Great Texas Wind

Turbine Trail

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Drive/Family

Cutting-edge libraries

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for more content

and events.

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Getaway

Discover Lubbock’s

arts scene

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Plates

Dumplings and other

Russian delights in

Carrollton; Texas pioneer

food—then and now

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Te x a na

Milton Brown and the birth

of Texas swing

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Events

The Texas State Forest

Festival in Lufkin

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Daytripper

Jacksonville bursts with

tomato pride

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Speaking of Texas

Author Sandra Cisneros on

traveling, San Antonio, and

following her heart

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Vintage

The most storied football

rivalry in Texas

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