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Keep up with our recent happenings at Historic Tours of Texas.
Painted Churches of Schulenburg
A How-to Guide to planning your trip to the Painted Churches
Traveling among the elderly
The pros and cons of traveling in our later years.
Importance of Tourism
What we need here in Huntsville is more tourist items for sale - mugs, T-shirts, Christmas ornaments, postcards!
Radio Shows
Close your eyes and drift back in time to a 1945 radio show from Harlem, New York.
Working without a Net in Social Media
It is hard learning to use Social Media
Let Me Entertain You
What does "Let me Entertain You" and a stripper pole have in common?
Does travel enrich your life?
Wonderful tour with HPE administrators and Partners at NASA.
Painted Churches tours
Fun friends, full moon, sparkling lights and 60s music!
Silence. Chaotic noise. Which do we prefer? The lovely silence among the pines
Sometimes, plans don’t work out as planned.
It was a wonderful morning waking up to some updates from our Copper Canyon to Baja tour!!!
Learning patience.
Our Copper Canyon 2021 Trip is underway! Let's read about Dr. Crimm's first day of travel as the tour sets off.
Touring the Copper Canyon
Adventuring in our own neighborhoods with tours in the comfort of the Joye Mobile.
Starting Again
How does one begin again after a years’ hiatus? In the empty void of 2020 when I should have been trying out new tours, designing new trips
Who You Know
Welcoming, cheerful, friendly, outgoing, obliging, sociable, kind, helpful, accommodating. I’m running out of adjectives.
And then there was Robin
Robin Logan, EMT, Driver and Cook, and now Factotum.
Texas Tidbits - The Bryan Museum
The Bryan Museum is one of the newest and most exciting destinations in Galveston, Texas. For all good Texans, and for those who would like
On Friendship
I had the good fortune to be invited to a “Tamalada” last week by a friend I’ve known since Kindergarten. We grew up in Mexico City together
From Shake-down Cruise to Maiden Voyage
My sister, and her husband, the harbor master and sailor, says it’s important to check out a ship before starting out on a long trip.
High Hopes
I had such high hopes of meeting Tommy this morning with a whole passel of videos from the Historic Huntsville tour we did this weekend.
Independence in San Miguel
If you ever get the chance to go to Mexico, choose San Miguel de Allende for the “Fiestas Patrias” or Mexican Independence, September 15th
Making the Sale
I stood staring into the faces of about twenty-five men and women, the males far outweighing the females.
On Sharing
Haven’t you ever elbowed someone and said, “Isn’t that the neatest (or coolest, or most wonderful or most whatever) thing you have ever seen
The Benefits of Knowledge
The gate was closed, secured by an electric code that I didn’t know. Beyond the gate I could see mysterious woods and a road that led tantal
The Joy of Laughter
Joy comes from the laughter of friends. Friends teasing and kidding each other. Old friends laughing as they share stories.
Follow in their footsteps!
You said that someday you would visit the best-loved destinations in Texas. Now is your chance! Easy registration and cancellation.
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