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click image to view gallery Story and Photos by Jennifer Babisak & Courtesy Photos When it comes to a family-friendly weekend getaway, I had never considered crossing the state line to Shreveport-Bossier City. After all, I thought of the destination, with ...

By Jo Lee Ferguson |  Photos by Danny Mogle When she was in high school, Whitney Brouwer gave her mother different kinds of problems to worry about than what many parents face. First, the Minnesota native worked in an airplane ...

 [EasyGallery id='fourtexasspringgetaways'] Click on image to view gallery. By Jennifer Babisak | Courtesy Photos When the last sparkles of winter’s frost fade into the budding warmth of spring, a renewed yearning for the open road begins to pull at me. ...

  By Destination Diva, Debbie Labicki | Photos by Lori Ivey Photography, Debbie Labicki Smack dab in the middle of nowhere is an escape worthy of discovering. Los Pinos, best known as the true pioneer spirit in the Texas wine ...

 By Jo Lee Ferguson | Courtesy Photos Picture this: It’s East Texas, and it’s Christmas time. Sure. It’s home. Family is close by. The tree is up in the living room. Stores are decorated. Downtown looks nice, and there are ...

  Surrounded by mountains and crisp, fresh air, I embarked on one of the most exciting and memorable travel experiences.  We flew directly into Durango and rented a little red Toyota RAV4. With map in hand, we set out on ...

  After three hours of digging for dinosaurs, climbing all over a large space shuttle model and riding a children’s train, my 3-year-old son offered his review of the Northeast Texas Children’s Museum in Commerce. “I don’t want to go, ...

  This fall, take your children to a pumpkin patch to see things they might never have experienced before — bales of hay, pumpkins sitting on the ground where they grew and, depending on the place, a step down memory ...

  Neina Kennedy has heard that history is hard to sell. She has trouble seeing that, though, in her job as director of the Gregg County Historical Museum in Longview. “I wonder if we’re unique because we have so many ...