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Count me out for big ship cruises. Spending time with 3,000 other people on a boat for a week sounds like getting locked in a shopping mall and pushed out to sea. But small boats? I’m a convert. Especially if you travel during the off season, like I did, when I booked...

Heads up, outdoor people. The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour returns to Austin April 27-28. The two-day festival features a selection of short films about people adventuring in the great outdoors. Mountain biking, snow skiing, rock climbing or paddling your...

Telluride always tops my list of the best ski towns in Colorado, and it’s hard to whittle the reasons why down to a short list. Still, I’ll give it a try. I’ve skied there, ridden a fat tire bike through the snow, gone snow mobiling and dog sledding, ridden a sleigh...

Want to learn more about the April 8 eclipse before the big day? Head to Barton Springs for the Full Moon Swim on March 25. Dawn Davies, the Night Sky Program Manager for the Hill Country Alliance and a former board member of the Austin Astronomical Society, will...

If you’re hoping to view the upcoming eclipse from a park located within the path of totality, it’s time to warm up your computer fingers. Reservations to get day passes at Texas State Parks for April 8  will open at 8 a.m. Friday, March 8. To book a pass, call the...

Mount Rundle in Banff National Park looks like a giant slab of clay that got whacked with a frying pan, and every time I see it I get shivers. Thanks to the traveling version of the Banff Film Festival, which comes to the Paramount Theatre in Austin every spring (get...

Sometimes, old school is better. When four college students squirmed their way into a rocky crevice under a limestone bridge north of San Antonio in 1960, they used nothing but handheld lanterns to explore the dim passages. Starting March 1, Natural Bridge Caverns...

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...

Heads up, swimmers. Crews are preparing to start work on the Barton Springs Bathhouse rehabilitation project, and that means parking is about to get tricky. The parking lot on the north side of the pool will shut Feb. 15 and remain closed during construction,...

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,...