<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Texas</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/unitedstates/tx?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><description>Texas</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Texas Eat 'Em]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7496-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7496-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In other barbecue hot spots, like Memphis and North Carolina, barbecue is pork. A person will find pork -- and chicken and mutton and even <em>cabrito </em>(baby goat) -- on Texas pits.]]></description><author> Jim Shahin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Game, Set...Match?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15232-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15232-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Austin <br>866-GO-AUSTIN, www.austin texas.org<br>   MERRYMAKING:  For bars/restaurants swarming with singles, cruise SoCo, along Congress Avenue. Other hot spots: Oslo (301 W. Sixth St.), for metrosexuals and the women who primp like 'em; Iron Cactus (606 Trinity...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watergate Papers Go Public]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61824-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61824-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thousands of pages of notes, memos, transcripts and other materials collectively known as the Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers open to the public today at the University of Texas, minus the most fascinating detailconnected to the demise of the Nixon administration: the identity of Deep Throat.]]></description><author> Sylvia Moreno</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Texas, Bright Lights, Small City]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9465-2004Oct29.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9465-2004Oct29.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The sun was gone, the sky getting inky. The wind had started to whip. (And even in the Texas desert, the winter wind can be <em>cold</em>.) I hunkered deeper into my jacket and jiggled for warmth. Behind me, my 16-year-old son loped restlessly back and forth, lupine, waiting. Suddenly a long lanky arm thrust past my face. "There's one!" he cried, pointing at the horizon. "And over there!" his younger brother echoed a moment later.]]></description><author> Zofia Smardz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Art of Texas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35532-2004Oct15.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35532-2004Oct15.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In recent years, the neighboring cities of Dallas and Fort Worth have become a sprawling showcase of first-rate paintings, sculptures and architecture.]]></description><author> Gary Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frontier Land]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10550-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10550-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As I drove south through the Hill Country, it was prettier than anything else I'd seen so far in the Lone Star State, but we're talking Texas here, so the bar wasn't all that high to begin with. I still didn't get why it was that every Texan I'd ever met loved this state with a love so big and braggartly it seemed like it would take all the rest of us in the other 49 sneering at it just to even things up.]]></description><author> Kristin Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wet, White and Blue]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23530-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23530-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Water park fans say Texas's Schlitterbahn is  the slippiest, drippiest of them all.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Little Bird Town in Texas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6063-2003Sep26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6063-2003Sep26.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[You half expect people to start throwing away their canes, speaking in tongues and screaming hallelujah when Roy Rodriguez starts preaching about the birds of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.]]></description><author> Carol Sottili</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[POSTCARD FROM TOM: Austin, Tex.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27893-2003Sep4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27893-2003Sep4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em>No time to head into the city? Austin offers an abundance of local flavor at its airport, thanks to outposts of the fine Amy's Ice Cream and Salt Lick Barbecue in the terminal. And in town...</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[LBJ'S TEXAS 101]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42858-2003Mar28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42858-2003Mar28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Of America's presidents, Lyndon B. Johnson, who died 30 years ago last January, was one of the most admired and reviled (often by the same people). The Rev. Billy Graham said no one could understand LBJ "unless they understood the land and the people from which he came." To do so, take a driving tour through the blue bonnet-carpeted hills of Texas Hill Country.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[HOUSTON RODEO 101]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38799-2003Jan24.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38799-2003Jan24.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WHAT:  The    Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo,  a  big deal even by Texas standards, rounding up more than 1 million spectators a year.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Bojangles's Austin]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38896-2003Jan10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38896-2003Jan10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["That's the last of the true honky-tonks," Jerry Jeff Walker said on a drizzly Wednesday last month as we left the Broken Spoke, a country music dance hall in south Austin, Tex.]]></description><author> Bill O'Brian</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Austin's Vintage Power]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17724-2002Dec20.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17724-2002Dec20.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[While some travelers seek museums or parks to get a sense of a city, I sniff out the stores. So when my sister moved to Austin this summer, I wasn't losing a sister, I was gaining new shopping grounds.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tourists Keep 'Dallas' Mystique Alive]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33645-2002Aug18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33645-2002Aug18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It has been more than 11 years since the last of the 356 regular episodes of "Dallas" was filmed, but the show has never really died, and neither has Southfork, the ranch where it was filmed.]]></description><author> Lee Hockstader</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[POSTCARD FROM TOM: Dallas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39629-2001Oct10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39629-2001Oct10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dallas brags that its restaurant-to-resident ratio is one of the highest in the country; alas, many of the city's dining destinations are commonplace chains. Here are three winning exceptions.]]></description><author> Tom Sietsema</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Texas, Beyond Cowboys and Indians]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46018-2002Feb8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46018-2002Feb8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[WHAT: The Amon Carter Museum, a newly expanded collection of Western and modern American art.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[George W. Bush's Austin]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46650-2000Jul14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46650-2000Jul14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[George W. Bush was born in New Haven, Conn., while his father was a Yale law student. Dubya was eventually elected governor of Texas in 1994 and has lived in the governor's mansion in Austin ever since. His national campaign headquarters is there also.]]></description><author> Linton Weeks</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opening Day: Downtown Baseball is Back]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35196-2000Apr7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35196-2000Apr7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/tx</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:32:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Across the nation this spring, six new downtown ballparks have either held or are preparing for Opening Day. We have a detailed rundown on each, written by the authors of a noted baseball travel guide.]]></description><author> Margaret Engel and Bruce Adams</author></item></channel></rss>