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I travel frequently, and always look for ways to lighten the load. I wondered if toothpaste tablets might work for me. I recently tested a jar of ENML “luxury toothpaste tablets,” and while I like the idea of leaving a squishy tube of toothpaste at home, these...

I’ve discovered one of the best drive-up campsites in Central Texas, and it’s set on a peninsula of land that stretches into Lake Buchanan at Cedar Point Recreation Area. Now I can’t wait to go back with my kayak and paddle from the park to the Fall Creek waterfall,...

If low lake levels and sizzling temperatures have kept you away from Central Texas campgrounds lately, we’ve got good news. Recent rains have boosted water levels in the Highland Lakes, returning campsites long separated from the shoreline to their former waterfront...

Here in Texas, we drink a lot of sweet tea and Dr Pepper. In Patagonia, the locals drink maté. While traipsing through South America this month, I saw people sipping the infused herbal drink while chatting at cafes, sitting on street benches, and even while driving...

Remember that episode of “The Brady Bunch,” when our favorite blended family stumbled into a perfectly preserved ghost town and met a crotchety prospector wearing a crumpled felt hat? I felt kind of like that this week, when I detoured to the skeletal remains of the...

I first camped at Inks Lake State Park in the 1970s, when my dad pitched a giant blue canvas tent and set up bunkbed cots inside for me and my sisters. That tent disintegrated long ago, but my fondness for the park, located an hour and 15 minutes northwest of Austin,...

I popped off a five-day rafting trip through Hells Canyon on the Snake River in Idaho last week with sand between my toes, a little poison ivy rash on my knees, and a duffle bag full of damp clothes. How’d it stack up to other rafting trips? Nothing compares to the...

Ever wonder what it was like to swim in an old-timey swimsuit? Me too, which is why I took the plunge and rented one for a couple of bucks when I visited the Banff Upper Hot Springs last week. Even better, my husband did, too. Yeah, yeah, I know. Slipping into a...

I love an old-fashioned soda fountain, and I found a classic, where I could perch on a bar stool and sip a strawberry milkshake, in downtown Kingsville. It didn’t hurt that the milkshake I got at the soda fountain inside Harrel’s Kingsville Pharmacy cost less than $4,...