Serves 6 2 pounds ground meat 2 medium onions, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 cups spicy veggie juice or tomato paste and water 16 oz. beef broth 2 tsp. hot soy sauce 2 tsp. chipotle Tabasco sauce 3 Tbsp. chili powder 1 tsp. salt (if none in broth) ½ tsp. black pepper 1 tsp. …
Repeat clients mean pure gold: they already know they’re in for a great time, and their friends need no convincing. So it was that Sue and Priscilla, who had experienced a Texpert adventure at a wedding a while back, brought their husbands for a special trek during October’s first weekend. It’s wine month in the …
My friends, family, and I enjoyed a fun and enlightened Kerrville Wine and Music Festival over the first September weekend. Besides the tastings and tunes, another main attraction for many folks is the experience of living outdoors. Others, most notably Dyanne Fry Cortez, write about Kerrville’s remarkable subculture, but this post might be the first …
Just as all my adventures be customized, so are my blog posts. Please let me know what additional information you desire. What am I not talking about? Thanks, Texpert
Much is written about the Texas Hill Country, and its reputation as the state’s Heartland is well-deserved. It’s certainly one of my favorite places to guide folks, and I got to do that again at a higher level one recent weekend. This trip connected me with some of my earliest childhood memories as well as …
British travel writer Tim Moore describes my tour as “idiosyncratic” in this month’s Lonely Planet magazine.
On June 4, just as summer vacation season began, I was privileged to host Linda Lambert, columnist for the Horseshoe Bay Beacon, on a Keep Austin Weird excursion. Here‘s her account of the adventure. Thanks, Linda!
Nothing but flowers . . . Hike – Pitch – Float Thanks for looking!
I can think of many ways to tell a story, but it seems that every story involves telling how the story came to be, and those story clusters intertwine. Linda and I celebrated our fifth honeymoon with a journey back in time. Our annual custom is to sleep in a historic hotel or bed and …
Oftentimes, some of the most remarkable historic figures remain little known. What single person could you name who was born of noble lineage, witnessed the American Revolution, founded a Louisiana town, owned large tracts of Spanish Texas, participated in the first Texas Revolution, saw the birth of the Mexican Republic, was a client of Texas’s …