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Hotel Valencia Riverwalk

The Alamo, a top Texas attraction is less than a 10-minute walk from the Hotel Valencia Riverwalk, which stands looking down on the San Antonio River Walk

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Lee’s Fried Chicken and Donuts. Extraordinary Fast food fine dinng.

Lee’s Fried Chicken and Donuts serving the fast food equivalent of fine dining, if I lived in Houston I’d never eat at home. And if you’ve never had fried chicken stuffed in a donut and dipped in bacon jam then, believe me, you haven’t lived.

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The LBJ Presidential Library

Lyndon Baines Johnson was Vice President when Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, and so found himself leading the country during the stormy years of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

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Lone Star Court Austin

We’d found what sounded like the perfect place to stay in the state’s capital: Lone Star Court. Does that sound like the perfect Texas hotel or what?

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Ghostly goings on in San Antonio

Considering San Antonio’s past, when it comes to ghosts and such like, you are pretty much spoilt for choice.

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Original Ninfa’s on Navigation.

Considering the size of Houston, this traditional nondescript Mexican restaurant tucked away on a nondescript road just off interstate 59 has a reputation so good people come from miles away to eat here.This is Original Ninfa’s on Navigation.

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