Get out of town, with a plan.
Six routes within two hours of Austin, built stop by stop with times, drive minutes between, where to eat and what to skip. Every stop is a place we have confirmed is open this month. Save a route and it lands in your plan.
Three towns, three Texas food religions.
Skip the chain stretch of the River Walk and do San Antonio like it is a second home: Mexican breakfast on the west side, a mission, the Pearl in the afternoon, and dinner at a place the city argues about.
Highway 290 between Johnson City and Fredericksburg is the second most visited wine road in the country, and the trick is to pick four and skip the rest.
Texas whiskey grew up in a fifty mile circle west of Austin, and most of it pours in tasting rooms with a hillside view.
The closest real Hill Country town to Austin, with two swimming holes, a square full of shops, and a winery and distillery cluster five minutes up the road in Driftwood.
New Braunfels is a German town on two rivers, and Gruene is its 1870s cotton village with the oldest dance hall in Texas at the center.
What are we missing? A route you run every spring, a stop between towns nobody writes down. Send it.