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I returned from the Fall Cowgirl Roundup at The Resort at Paws Up in Montana with cow poop on my boots and a little swagger in my stride. That’s what comes from four days spent horseback riding, fly fishing, whip cracking and more. The event is held each spring and...

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,...

The Nā Pali Coast towers before me, painted in the peachy hues of evening light, sky and sea melting into one. How on earth did I get to the vibrant, ethereal slopes of Kauai? Two years ago, as a broke college student in her 20s, I longed to experience Hawaii’s...

Now and then, it’s fun to play tourist in your home state. I zipped down to San Antonio last week with my husband for an overnight stay on the Riverwalk. Touristy? Sure. But also, enjoyable. From Austin, it takes less than two hours to get to San Antonio. We checked...

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...

For Michigan artist Amber Dohrenwend, discarded cardboard boxes and a stash of staples add up to community and art. The artist recently used 5,000 long skinny strips cut from shipping boxes for bicycles and 37,500 staples to build a temporary, large-scale art...

Take a pastry crust, fill it with meat, potatoes and root vegetables, bake until golden, and voila – you’ve got a pasty. Think of the hand-held meat pies, a comfort food staple in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, as the state’s answer to the burrito. They’re easy to...

My daughter in Europe pings me a text message. My eyes adjust to the light of my cellphone. It’s 5:30 a.m. in Austin, Texas. Is she wearing a neon jumpsuit? Are those mountains? I fumble for my glasses, struggling to read a message accented by parachuting emojis....

Located on the shores of constant-level Lake LBJ less than an hour outside of Austin, Horseshoe Bay Resort is the perfect escape for families seeking some summertime fun in the sun while keeping cool. Just in time for summer, here are five brand new resort offerings...