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The Texas Water Safari is a month away, and I’m officially freaking out
Time for a Texas Water Safari reality check. We’re a month out, and honestly, I’m freaking out. After racing the 35-mile Texas River Marathon on Saturday (finished middle of the pack), teammate Debbie Richardson and I explored the cuts and sloughs around Alligator...

Watch bats emerge from Bracken Cave tonight
If you can’t get to Bracken Cave near San Antonio to watch the emergence of millions of bats in person, you can do the next best thing - watch them swirl out of the ground by a live streaming event. Bat Conservation International and Texas Parks and Wildlife...

Nothing goes as planned when you’re training for the Texas Water Safari
When you’re training for the Texas Water Safari, stuff goes wrong. And it did this week. I’m racing on a five-human boat, and two of our five humans live in Colorado, not Texas. That’s OK. Both Steve Daniel and John Murphy have finished the 260-mile paddling race...

Food as art (and in a terrarium) at the exclusive Green o in Montana
If food were art, I just worked my way through the Louvre, nine paintings at a time. Over three nights tucked in the woodsy chic world of Paws Up in Montana, a place where well-heeled families and couples looking for a romantic escape fill their days fly fishing,...