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​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 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 installation...

I just spent six days wading beneath waterfalls, hiking through deep green forests, and plopping into the chilly waters of the world’s largest freshwater lake in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. As a Texan, I’m used to losing my will to spend afternoons outdoors...