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Travel Post Friday: the Paris Coffee Shop
It’s the kind of unpretentious downtown diner where the owner pauses at the table of a longtime customer, and they commiserate about how their bum shoulders keep them from playing tennis as much as...
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Travel Post Friday: Waste not, want not
This is a handmade decorative ornament made from “114 heads representing 5 generations of the Fleming family” in Nolan County, Texas. Said my daughter in reaction to the ornament: “It’d be really...
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Travel and tourism at SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive) 2012
The topics are all over the map at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin every year, but even in the 20,000 person geek madness, it’s still possible to find one’s “tribe.” If you are a travel...
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Travel Post Friday: Pegasus details at the Magnolia Hotel
The building that now houses the hip Magnolia Hotel in Dallas used to be the headquarters for Mobil Oil. A big red Pegasus neon sign (the Magnolia Oil and then the Mobil Oil corporate symbol) rotated...
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If you have great ideas, stories or case studies to share, there are two speaking proposal deadlines coming up this week…. ** SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive) digital/tech creatives conference...
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Experimenting with a Megabus, Amtrak and Greyhound trip
It’s like Planes, Trains and Automobiles except that the autos are buses instead. Now that Midwestern favorite Megabus has some routes in Texas, I’ve decided to try it out this week on a trip to Tulsa,...
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The Shut Up and Do It holiday season
Husband Chris and Mom Joanne at Pedernales Electric Coop HQ lights Johnson City TX After the last few holiday seasons, I’ve felt that I really missed a lot of opportunities to enjoy local festivities....
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Travel Post Friday: Travel Meetup at SXSWi
SXSWi 2013 badge and guide One of the 5000+ events at the SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive) tech conference in Austin, Texas is a series of Meet Ups so that people with similar interests have a...
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Travel Post Friday: the closer to the ocean, the better. For the ions, you know.
Ocean view from the San Luis Resort and Conference Center Galveston Texas (photo by Sheila Scarborough) If I can walk out onto a balcony, hear waves crashing and smell that salty smell, I’m a happy...
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What is SXSW Interactive?
Cover of SXSWi 2007 print conference guide (photo by Sheila Scarborough) It is that time of year here in central Texas. Time for “South by.” SXSW. South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. “The thing that...
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