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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,...

Fact: It sucks to get sick while traveling, especially if you’re in a foreign country. But it happens. And in the last year, it’s happened to me a lot, from a torn ACL while skiing in Idaho to a bout of gastrointestinal distress in Bangkok, vomiting in the Marshall...

Forget bath towels folded into animal shapes. The Sun Siyam Resorts where I stayed in the Maldives Islands went a step farther. They used palm fronds to create works of art on top of my bed at night. I spent nearly two weeks in the Maldives in January, visiting three...

I felt like a character in a James Bond movie last week when I flew in a float plane to reach Sun Siyam’s Iru Veli resort in the Maldives Islands. After a 45-minute flight in the small plane, which soared over a string of tiny islands set against a turquoise backdrop,...

Ten things to know about the Maldives Islands before you book a trip... About 1,200 islands scattered across an underwater ridge in the Indian Ocean make up the Maldives Islands. It takes a long time to get to there from Texas. I flew Austin to New York City to Doha,...

Two years ago, I strapped an avalanche beacon and a shovel to my back and headed into the backcountry at Keystone Resort in Colorado. At the time, the only way to reach Bergman Bowl – or neighboring Independence and Erickson bowls – was to hike for 45 minutes to get...

Whooping cranes, take a bow. Port Aransas is gearing up to celebrate the arrival of some of its most famous winter residents, who migrate from Canada to their wintering habitat at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas each year. The 27th Annual Whooping Crane...

I’ll be lucky if the postcard I mailed from the Galapagos Islands last week makes it to its intended destination in a year – or ever. It’s part of the charm of tiny Post Office Bay on Floreana Island, where for more than 200 years people have been leaving letters,...

On the off chance that you haven’t had enough pink in your life lately, behold the World of Barbie. The 25,000-square foot interactive exhibit, created in collaboration with Barbie manufacturer Mattel, opens Nov. 17 at Stonebridge Centre in the Dallas suburb of...