Check out Boerne this holiday season, where you’ll find themed holiday weekends and plenty of spectacular dining, shopping, music, and lights to celebrate all month long! Here are a few of our favorite things: Peggy’s on the Green Open for lunch, dinner, and Sunday...
Enjoy a girlfriend sip trip along the 290 Texas Hill Country Wine Trail By Janis Turk Take your favorite Tervis cup, grab your girlfriends, and turn up the radio. Soak up the sun, and take a Hill Country sip-trip to some of Texas’ best wineries. We picked 10...
Perseverance, Integrity, and Kindness: The Secret to Boerne’s Success in Challenging Times While the COVID-19 crisis has devastated many of our country’s small towns and communities, Boerne seems to be weathering the obstacles and managing to not only survive but,...
Whether it’s assisting customers in a whimsical boutique, meeting the needs of businesses and homeowners, or helping to heal the wounded, these three Hill Country women have each answered the call to service amid the unexpected twists and turns of their own lives....
Comfort: Even the community’s name is inviting.
There are few places in Texas as pretty as Marble Falls, a small Texas Hill Country town that’s big on beauty, beloved for Highland Lake splendor, stunning vistas, fun year-round events and attractive vacation properties.
When bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush line the highways and backroads of Texas, and breezes are gentle and temperatures are mild, there’s no better time for festivals and family fun in the Hill Country.
5 Drive-To Destinations to Put the Thrill Back In Your Weekends. The thrill is gone. Not in your relationship — but in your boring date night and weekend routine. Maybe you’ve fallen into a rut: always frequenting the same restaurants and entertainment venues and...
The Hill Country’s best and brightest holiday celebrations By JANIS TURK All is calm, and all is bright as twinkling lights, night parades, Christmas shopping markets and warm Yuletide fun fill the calendar in towns throughout the Hill Country this season. Families...
WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO IN AND AROUND THIS MOST POPULAR HILL COUNTRY TOWN What is new to say about a place I’ve been to a thousand times? You might be surprised. With each new visit, there are more wonderful places to discover. As the author of several guidebooks...
Brides suggest their perfect wedding day picks for Texas venues and vendors When planning a big beautiful Texas wedding—or even an intimate ceremony for two — many brides turn to the scenic Hill Country and South Central Texas for inspiration. “We chose the...
Alamo City and Hill Country Breweries with Women Behind the Beer Wine is for women, and beer is for the boys — that’s a stereotype that simply doesn’t hold true anymore. Today, many men are serious oenophiles (connoisseurs of wine), and women, who hold their hops...
Where to find the best celebrations of the season Santa can make it to every house in Texas in one night, but unless you have eight enchanted reindeer and a magic sleigh, there’s no way you can possibly get to all the great places there are to visit in the Texas Hill...
Mapping out the sauciest little barbecue joints in Texas! Throw a dart at a Texas map, and you can be sure it will land, bull’s-eye, on a town with some great old-time Texas barbecue joint — a place that someone will undoubtedly claim has the best barbecue in the...
Where to beat the San Antonio spring and summer heat in South Texas and the Hill Country The hottest temperature ever recorded in San Antonio is 111 degrees, so locals know what a blazing inferno spring, summer and even fall can feel like in South Texas. Only four...
As incredible as it sounds, sources estimate that 250,000-plus Americans have a fear of antiques. Even actor Billy Bob Thornton claims to suffer from this bizarre phobia, insisting he’s afraid of all furniture built before 1950. Of course, most San Antonio women don’t...
Why this mid-sized Texas town is a big draw for San Antonio It’s not uncommon for people from a small town to drive into a big city for food, art, entertainment and family fun. However, it is unusual for locals to leave the big city and seek out a smaller town for...
For many San Antonio locals, a day trip or weekend getaway to the Texas Hill Country once meant a drive to Fredericksburg, where we’d go to enjoy shops, restaurants, holiday festivals, parks and natural attractions. But on the way there, many of us happened upon the...
