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Big changes are coming to Big Bend
Big changes are coming to the Big Bend. The Chisos Basin section of Big Bend National Park is preparing to close for a two-year construction project. But while...
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Banff Film Festival 2025 returns to Austin on March 22 – as a one-day event
The Banff Mountain Film Festival 2025 returns to Austin next month – as a one-day event instead of the two days it has covered in past years. But if you’re up for a day of binge-watching cool outdoor and adventure movies, you can still get your fill. The festival will...
Visit New Orleans in winter for a chill time
My in-laws live in Baton Rouge, and whenever my husband and I head over for a visit, we try to swing down to New Orleans to get our fix of raw oysters, live music, and wrought iron balconies. From Austin, it takes about 8 hours to drive to New Orleans. We were tired...
South side of Garner State Park to close for repairs starting Dec. 1
Heads up, campers. The old side of Garner State Park – including the pavilion, the Pecan Grove and Oakmont camping loops and cabins, park store, day-use picnic area and main swimming area near the dam – will close starting Dec. 1 for road construction and facility...
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Casey Chapman Ross
Casey Chapman Ross is a native and current Austinite, living here with her husband and three kids. Currently, she focuses on growing her travel writing and hospitality portfolio and involving her family in these assignments as often as possible.
Becca Hensley
For more than three decades, award-winning travel writer Becca Hensley has roved the world to find the meaning of life. Currently, she serves as Travel Editor for New Orleans Bride and Contributing Editor for Insiders Guide to Spas. A poet, mother, and gadabout, she is a luxury expert.

Anne Keene
Anne Keene is an Austin-based writer, swimmer, sometimes horseback rider, and author of The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win WWII. For other stories visit www.annerkeene.com.

Maximiliano Mauriz
Maximiliano Mauriz was born in Santiago, Chile, but came to Texas as fast as he could. He lives in Austin with his partner, their 3-year old Vizsla, Boston (aka Boss), and 1-year old foster pup, Philip. He enjoys time with family and friends, travel, running and swimming — and taking images of the people (and animals) he loves and the places he visits.
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Jeff Jenkins is an award-winning content creator and travel journalist who is the founder of Chubby Diaries. Jeff’s enthusiastic personality, charisma and contagious big smile makes him one of a kind! Learn more about him at https://www.chubbydiaries.com/.
Addie Broyles
Addie Broyles is a writer, podcaster and tarot card reader in Austin, where she’s raising her two sons and building community around food, family, travel and intersectional feminism. Read more of her work at https://thefeministkitchen.substack.com/.
Melanie Moore
Melanie P. Moore is a writer living in Austin, Texas. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Atlanta Magazine, Creative Loafing, and Austin Fit Magazine. She was previously the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Badgerdog Literary Publishing.
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