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For the best pan dulce, stop at this Johnson City gas station!
Every time I pass through Johnson City, I stop at the Dixie Quick Stop. I don’t go for the gas, although sometimes I do fill the tank. I go for the little Mexican bakery tucked inside the worn-out Valero station at 500 U.S. 281. It sells the best pan dulce, or Mexican...
First – and last! – at Town Lake Race No. 3
When I finished the Texas Water Safari with two partners in 2019, I swore I’d never do the 260-mile paddling race again. Yet here I am, girding my loins for the event, a long-distance canoe race that starts at Spring Lake in San Marcos and finishes in Seadrift on the...
I tried my first BeaverTail in Canada … and loved it!
Add BeaverTails to the list of Canadian food specialties I taste tested during last week’s trip to Banff. First, I tried poutine – a mound of French fries topped in cheese curds and doused with brown gravy. Then I tried a BeaverTail – a ball of dough hand stretched...
At the Moose Hotel in Banff: A restored mail-order home inside a modern lodge
I’m staying at the Moose Hotel in Banff, which opened in 2016. But it’s not the rooftop hot tubs or sleek accommodations that make this place stand out to me. It’s the way the modern hotel wraps its arms around a historic old house that stands in its courtyard. The...
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