35 Things We Love About Texas - Marty Lange

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35 Things Associate Editor Marty Lange Loves About Texas


1.    Houston  
2.    San Antonio  
3.    Fort Worth  
4.    Austin 
5.    El Paso  
6.    The Dallas Morning News  
7.    Bryce’s Cafeteria, Texarkana
8.    Padre Island and South Padre Island
9.    Big Bend (the National Park, the River Road, Marfa, Marathon, Fort Davis, and Davis Mountains)
10.    Palo Duro, Llano Estacado, and the Caprock
11.    Hill Country  
12.    Barbecue  

13.    Tex-Mex  
14.    Fruits and vegetables  
15.    Cowboy thang/country music with fiddles and pedal steel guitar/ rodeos/farm and ranch life  
16.    Miles and miles of highway
17.    Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi  
18.    Wide-open space of West Texas with spectacular sunsets
19.    Passion for football  
20.    Guadalupe Mountains National Park
21.    Cultural-ethnic mix  
22.    Comparatively mild winters
23.    College baseball
24.    Port Aransas
25.    Air conditioning
26.    The arts (variety of music, metro ballets, operas, museums, film production, theaters, and symphonies)
27.    Galveston Island
28.    Cold water springs
29.    Proximity to our neighbors in Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Louisiana
30.    Historic-small-town charm (Jefferson, Goliad, Washington County, Port Isabel, etc.)
31.    Fresh shrimp
32.    The Rio Grande
33.    The green Piney Woods of East Texas
34.    State parks and state pride
35.    ZZ Top, Joe Ely, Willie Nelson and the late Doug Sahm

For more on Marty Lange, read his blog.

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