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by: Dave Thomas, Austin American Statesman Updated: Mar 2, 2016 - 3:52 PM
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Schlitterbahn Galveston is the most thrilling waterpark destination | Schlitterbahn Galveston Dress CodeIt's Texas Independence Day. That's right, Texas' 180th birthday. What did you get her? Aw, you haven't done any arcade yet? OK. You can accompany in on my gift: 180 things we adulation about Texas.
It was adamantine to attenuated bottomward the account of things to adulation to 180. I mean, I already rode from San Angelo to Terlingua in a van abounding of armadillos apprenticed by a guy alleged Jalapeno Sam. And I've eaten barbecue from Silsbee to El Paso. And I already was in Eden and Utopia on the aforementioned day. Heck, that account up there? That wasn't alike staged. My barn looks like that all the time. I aloof added the candles. (OK, that's not true. But my wife wouldn't argue.) I'm a appealing "Texas" feller.
Thankfully, my coworkers and Facebook accompany pitched in and we brought you the 180 best Texas things anytime we adulation about Texas. Please, booty your hat off, affluence on aback and enjoy.
Happy Texas Independence Day.
HERE'S OUR TOP TEN
1. Willie Nelson.
2. Absolute barbecue. Spelled with a “c,” of course, because the c stands for “cow.”
3. Wide accessible spaces and abandoned roads.
4. Big skies. I'm a bigger fan of majestic than menacing.
5. An alarming assortment of bodies (which leads to an alarming assortment of food, music and culture).
6. Bluebonnets! Bluebonnets everywhere!
7. Tacos from Austin. (Ha! We’re aloof kidding. We’ll booty a taco from anywheres south of Oklahoma.)
8. Shiner Beer. The alone Texas beer you could buy afore Prohibition that’s still fabricated at its aboriginal brewery.
9. That atom on Highway 87 east of Eden (really) area West Texas aloof kinda appears.
10. Queso. How could we about balloon queso?
PATRON SAINTS
11. C.B “Stubb” Stubblefield.
12. And the aboriginal “Stubb’s” in Lubbock. Because it was awesome. And the barbecue booze didn’t accept to sue the restaurant. Sheesh.
13. Tom Landry.
14. Townes Van Zandt.
15. Janis Joplin. Aloof a bit advanced of her time.
16. And Kenneth Threadgill, too.
17. Hondo Crouch.
18. And Luckenbach, too. (It's not dead, aloof seemed like a acceptable atom to acknowledgment it.)
19. And that Jerry Jeff Walker song about Charlie Dunn, while we're traipsing about that era.
20. Darrell K. Royal. For you Longhorns out there.
21. Buddy Holly.
22. Stevie Ray Vaughan.
23. Leadbelly.
CULTURE
24. Watching a aerial academy football bold at House Park Stadium in Austin.
25. Aerial academy football in baby towns, too.
26. Heck, absolutely aloof football in general.
27. The accurate honky-tonks alloyed in with the day-tripper spots in the Fort Account Stockyards.
28. Every added accurate honky-tonk. Go to one afore they're gone!
29. Especially Ginny's Little Longhorn and their appropriate bingo game.
30. Arena dominoes with old men.
31. Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic.
32. Those added Austin music festivals. What were they called? Oh yeah, article like SXSW? And ACL?
33. Aggies. You may or may not like 'em, but they are Texan about amid Texas Rangers (the one anarchism kind) and antagonism riders.
34. The best Renaissance Fair in the country.
35. Watching the Rangers comedy in Globe Life Park.
36. Go Spurs Go!
37. Texas formal/casual dress codes (aka boots).
38. The Cap 10k, the better 10k in Texas.
39. Running about Austin's Lady Bird Lake. Or, if you're not that athletic, walking about boring and people-watching.
40. H-E-B. They may not consistently accept my heart. But they consistently accept my money.
41. Wimberley Trade Days. Aback it comes to antiques and old stuff, I ain't abundant of a buyer, but I’m a appealing fair hunter.
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43. Cowboys. Absolute cowboys.
44. Cowboy hats for everybody! Alike affected cowboys!
45. The Texas flag. C'mon. It beats the heck out every added accompaniment flag.
46. Heck we had six flags. And still accept Six Flags.
47. Old barns.
48. Ridiculously colossal ranches.
49. Texas-shaped everything. Would you buy a cossack shaped like Delaware? No! Or maybe you do. I don't apperceive what Delaware looks like ...
50. Interesting history. We bethink the hell out of the Alamo.
51. "Don't Mess With Texas."
52. Saying "Fixin' to" and "ain't" and "howdy" and any cardinal of Texan sayings and phrases.
53. Like "crazier than a abuse alley lizard."
TEXAS FOLKS
54. Earl Campbell. Who doesn't adulation Earl Campbell?
55. Chuck Norris. If a timberline avalanche in the forest, does anybody hear? Yes. Chuck Norris hears it. Chuck Norris can apprehend everything. Chuck Norris can apprehend the shrieking alarm in your soul.
56. Tommy Lee Jones. Are you activity to acquaint him different?
57. Having accompany who appear from such altered places, alike admitting we’re all from the aforementioned state.
58. Polite gentlemen. Or at atomic those who "can't angle abrupt behavior in a man."
59. Affable strangers. Alike aback they don't anticipate you're packing a pistol.
60. Women with big hair. They're still around.
61. Robert Rauschenberg. C'mon get you ability on.
62. Robert Rodriguez.
63. Farrah Fawcett.
64. Judge Roy Bean. Law and order, Texas-style.
65. Bonnie and Clyde. Outlaws, Texas-style.
66. Nolan Ryan teaching Robin Ventura a little account for his elders. Possibly the best Texan affair that has anytime absolutely happened.
TRAVEL
67. The Willow City Loop.
68. Active from Kerrville to Medina in the Hill Country.
69. Fishing the Laguna Madre in South Texas.
70. Barton Springs.
71. And Hamilton Pool.
72. And Balmorhea Accompaniment Park. Especially Balmorhea Accompaniment Park.
73. The Window at Big Bend National Park.
74. Boquillas del Carmen, beyond that little river from Big Bend. OK, it’s not technically “Texas” but Robert Earl Keen’s song “Gringo Honeymoon” is — aloof to awning my bases.
75. Sitting in the chrism at Aerial Island and watching the mullet jump. Who needs Caribbean breezes?
76. Buying beginning Gulf shrimp from the docks.
77. Walking the Strand in Galveston and accepting ice chrism from La King's Confectionary.
78. Dickens on the Strand while we’re at it.
79. Staying at Indian Lodge at Fort Davis Accompaniment Park, and hiking the Indian Lodge Trail.
80. Hiking to the top of the tallest aiguille in Texas, Guadalupe Peak.
81. Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels.
82. Tubing the Comal River. Or the Horseshoe Loop on the Guadalupe.
83. Being able to see a accomplished added country beyond the bound aback you drive through El Paso.
84. Staying at the apparitional Von Minden Hotel in Schulenburg
85. Buc-ee’s gas stations and spending a meal's account of money on snacks.
86. Farm-to-Market anchorage area the pickups that canyon you all accord a affable wave.
87. Old dancehalls: Gruene Hall, Sengelmann Hall.
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89. The 85 mph acceleration absolute – fastest in the U.S.
90. The Sun Bowl in El Paso.
91. And Rosa's Cantina, too. "Out in the West Texas boondocks of El Paso ..." Yes. It's a absolute place. And it's awesome.
92. The Texas Capitol. That's one abuse accomplished allotment of architecture, behindhand of what one ability anticipate of the activities that action inside.
93. Any cardinal of admirable canton courthouses, too.
94. Big Tex at the Accompaniment Fair.
95. The Marfa lights.
96. Or if you're activity high-falutin': Prada Marfa and El Cosmico.
97. The Riverwalk. Aw, c'mon. Don't be a snob. It's a acceptable time!
98. Hiking up Enchanted Rock.
99. The Luling Watermelon Thump.
100. And the Brady Dupe Cookoff.
101. The Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg.
102. The Terlingua Chili Cookoff. Both of 'em.
GEOGRAPHY & CRITTERS
103. Armadillos. Preferably alive, or at atomic fatigued by Jim Franklin.
104. Seeing the mural change aback active the 8 hours from Austin to El Paso.
105. How the arid smells aback it rains.
106. Horny Toads. Aloof how air-conditioned they are. Not how they smell.
107. Clay Henry, the beer-drinking dupe / ambassador of Lajitas.
108. You can see forests, swamps, beaches, hills, desert, plains and mountains all after anytime abrogation the state.
109. The stars at night ...
110. Extremes in weather. Sometimes in the aforementioned day.
111. About aggregate about the Hill Country, except how abundant anybody abroad loves it, too.
MUSIC
112. Billy Joe Shaver.
113. That Billy Joe Shaver can beat “fame” with “thang” and it’s absolutely honest.
114. ZZ Top.
115. George Strait (whom I accept to acknowledgment or bisected a amateur San Antonio women will coursing me down).
116. Lyle Lovett.
117. Beyonce.
118. Selena.
119. The 13th Floor Elevators.
120. The roots of Dirty South hip hop, UGK.
121. DJ Screw. 'Cause there's annihilation added Texan again inventing your own appearance of music.
122. That little guitar abandoned in Ray Wylie Hubbard's "All Loose Things."
123. Lightnin' Hopkins.
124. Terry Allen's "Lubbock on Everything."
125. Whatever it was in Lubbock that acquired it to appear musicians all over the state.
126. Waylon Jennings' "Lonesome On'ry and Mean."
127. Van Cliburn. Honestly, I don't apperceive abundant about classical music, but he's on every one of these array of lists. Who am I to leave off the boss?
128. Activity to "Austin City Limits" tapings.
129. Trigger. I'd say it should go to the Smithsonian, but Willie's activity to alive forever, right?
BARBECUE & BEER & OTHER COMESTIBLES
130. Do we accept to accommodate it? OK, Franklin Barbecue. I’m not abiding a developed man should angle in band 3 hours for lunch, but it’s clumsily good.
131. Accept I mentioned abundant barbecue? Big fan of Cooper’s in Llano.
132. Did you apperceive you can still buy Pearl beer? It’s endemic in California and alone produced in cans at a accumulated brewery in Fort Worth, but you can alcohol the aforementioned beer (in name only, I'm sure) that they drank in San Antonio in the 1890s.
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134. Czech Stop in West
135. Kolaches anywhere, really.
136. Oyster Fest in Rockport.
137. Sartin’s Seafood in Beaumont.
138. Snoopy’s Pier in Corpus.
140. The Texas Chili Parlor.
141. The gatefold analogy in ZZ Top’s “Tres Hombres” album. That's what Tex-Mex should attending like.
142. Joe T. Garcia’s in Fort Worth.
143. Eating abjure forth the coast. I mean, at restaurants, not aloof off the ground. C'mon guys.
144. Whataburger. Duh.
145. Margaritas and Tex-Mex at the aboriginal Chuy's.
146. Absolute Ale Brewing.
147. Chamoy snow cones.
148. Lone Star longnecks. Alike if they say "Since 1845" on the label. Lone Star isn't that old. And if they're talking about Texas, it should say "Since 1836." I'm blaming non-Texan marketers.
149. King's Inn on the Baffin Bay.
150. La Fogata in San Antonio.
151. Lydia's Homestyle Cooking in Kingsville.
152. Paco's Abode in San Angelo.
153. L&J Cafe in El Paso.
154. Chicken-fried steak.
155. Chicken-fried chicken
156. Fried abuse abreast annihilation at the Accompaniment Fair.
157. Fredericksburg peaches.
158. Dublin Dr Pepper.
159. Julio's Chips. The bomb.
160. I'm not abiding how we got this far after advertence Blue Bell ice cream.
TEXAS MEDIA
161. “Lonesome Dove.” Book, mini-series, both.
162. That allotment of “Lonesome Dove” that ends with Gus agitation that “it ain’t abundant of abomination whacking a bearish bartender."
163. “Goodbye to a River” by John Graves.
164. We apperceive who attempt J.R. Ewing. Or at atomic who J.R. was. Or at atomic that there was a appearance alleged "Dallas" aback aback you stood in advanced of the TV and afflicted the channels for dad.
165. Kinky Friedman's abstruseness novels.
166. Jan Reid's "The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock."
167. Memories of watching Marvin Zindler's restaurant address on TV with grandma: "There was SLIME in the ice machine!"
168. And, in a accompanying note, "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
169. "Slacker."
170. "Barbarosa." Or "The Red-Headed Stranger." We consistently said Willie was a acceptable amateur aback he was arena himself. But he makes a appealing fair cowboy, too.
171. And "The Last Account Show."
172. The Alamo Drafthouse. Movies were meant to be apparent this way.
173. "Texas Country Reporter." Adulation that show.
174. Can't possibly leave off "Urban Cowboy." Annihilation that involves automated beasts ain't all bad.
175. "Friday Night Lights." The book by H.G. Bissinger.
176. The photographs of Keith Carter.
177. The cartoons of Tex Avery.
178. Mike Judge and "King of the Hill."
179. And "Office Space," of course.
180. And annihilation by Elmer Kelton.
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