Picks and Pans – West Texas and Southern New Mexico

Author: Erica | May 8th, 2009

PICKS: McKittrick Canyon hike in Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Not only is Guadalupe Mountains National Park located conveniently close to Carlsbad Caverns, it also has some killer hikes and is strikingly beautiful in that desert kind of way. We decided on hiking McKittrick Canyon because we arrived too late for Carlsbad Caverns or the hike […]

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Picks and Pans – Austin, TX

Author: Erica | May 5th, 2009

I’ve found that the places that I like the best aren’t the ones where we see the best music, or the greatest art, or even the ones with the best bookstores (although that doesn’t hurt). The places I like best are the ones where we meet people who make me think about things in a […]

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Picks and Pans – Houston, TX

Author: Erica | May 3rd, 2009

We were planning on quickly bypassing Houston until we made a serendipitous cyber connection with Houston native Larry Harris. We had been using Larry’s website to find folk/visionary artists and environments throughout our travels, and thanks to our overlapping interests, Larry found our website and contacted us right before we ventured into Texas. Larry offered […]

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