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City of Austin boat launches reopen Saturday
Big news, fellow water bums. The Austin Parks and Recreation Department will reopen boat launches and boat docks on Saturday. The city’s tennis centers, golf courses, boating concessions, clay shooting concessions, food concessions and Umlauf Sculpture Garden will...

I blindfolded myself for the trip over this Colorado mountain pass
Sheer, exposed cliffs make my kneecaps clatter like castanets. Once, during a backpacking trip, I had to crawl on my hands and knees through a 200-foot stretch of trail that was making my eyeballs spin like plates balanced on the end of long, spindly poles. So no, my...

Can a non-alcoholic beer stand up to regular craft brew?
At the time Jeff Wueste quit drinking booze more than three decades ago, beer lovers didn’t have a ton of options from which to choose. Beer was basically beer until the rise of microbreweries in the 1990s, and by that time, Wueste had switched to non-alcoholic brews....

It’s official: I’m hooked on vanlife
After spending a week rambling around the cool, aspen- and pine-shaded mountains of Colorado in a customized Dodge Ram ProMaster 1500, I’m convinced I need a campervan in my life. I love sleeping in a tent, but snoozing in a cozy nook in the back of a van, then...