Here's downtown:
The view from my porch:
A parade:
Up the mountain a bit:
More here:
http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=913142
Posted on 10/04/2009 6:13:28 PM PDT by kingattax
How do you like them HOGS!!!!!!!
Here's downtown:
The view from my porch:
A parade:
Up the mountain a bit:
More here:
http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=913142
Beautiful pics Uncle Milt.
...I do not like yamas....;)
I’ve heard that home prices in Lexington have blown up since its discovery. Shame. It was on my list.
Of course there are, but this is my hometown! To name a few: Salado, New Braunsfel, Bourne, Wimberly...and I could go on...but, they were asking for a conservative small town.
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That may have been true three or four years ago; like everyplace else, prices have fallen since the great crash. In addition, much depends on what your basis for comparison is. As I live in the DC suburbs, prices in Lexington still seem remarkably low to me. If you are coming from (say) Oklahoma or eastern Kentucky, prices will seem high in Lexington.
I envy anyone who has the chance to move there. It is stunningly beautiful, with the views of the mountains and all the historic houses.
I think College Station is better by a score of 43-33............... just teasing.
don't tell anybody about us. We're fine and I like it this way. If we keep attracting people, we'll end up like Austin and have to "keep it weird".
No more Californians, Yankees or parasites... they can go to Austin or Houston.... just like the friendly people, who want a great place to raise kids and the great kids that go to this university, grad and medical school.
gig 'em Aggies..... whoop!
Seems the emphasis was on small towns, with trendy clothing boutiques, coffee shops, and cool restaurants.
Maybe “America’s Coolest Conservative Small Towns” should be a stand alone post - we’ve got some hidden gems here... Thanks for sharing.
Those are not the things that make or break a town for me. The people in my little town are what make it worth living here ... them and the beautiful woods, fields and waters. Then again, our feed store has some pretty trendy overalls and a LaCrosse rubber boot section to die for.
Texarkana, Tex. (Population 61,000): the gem of the I-30 Corridor, Texarkana lies astride the state’s border with the city of Texarkana, Arkansas. As a result, residents enjoy twice the bureaucracy, with only half the usual number of parks, libraries, and amenities of other cities the same size. Three local pulp mills give the humid, stagnant air a piquancy never to be forgotten, and workers from the local tire factory, pipe plant, and army depot join with the area’s large population of transients, the chronically unemployed, and street people to give the atmosphere at the city’s one and only mall a zing and zest all its own. In historic downtown Texarkana, visitors can see examples of boarded-up architecture dating from 1872, along with much of the city’s original paving and railroad frontage. Of special note are Texarkana’s many renowned fundamentalist and non-denominational churches, many of which are examples of the prefabricated-steel-shed-with-brick-veneer school of ecclesiastical architecture. And since the city’s neighborhoods remain de facto segregated, travelers can marvel at some of the nation’s last remaining examples of pre-1960s public housing units. Add to this the city’s famous local cuisine (Chili’s, Applebee’s, the Triple-JJJ Truck Stop, and one of the oldest standing Denny’s in America) and the late-night social scene surrounding the Rest Stop/State Welcome Center on the Interstate, and Texarkana becomes an irresistible temptation along the busy road between Dallas and Little Rock.
WooHoo! Fashion city! ;o)
Well, pretty much anywhere in Texas except Austin & Houston are going to be conservative, especially compared to where I live (California).
I love Bryan/College Station. I’m trying to convince my husband to retire there.
>> Jacksonville, Oregon.
Thanx for the nice pix, but most conservatives walk the other way when we see goofy a$$ed animals with purple top hats ;o)
I drove through Galena... but it was raining. Whitefish, MT is nice... but it’s a lil bigger than a small town.
We want to keep our flyover country a secret from these so-called experts on everything including travel.
It makes me laugh to think that any one person/or group of people can pick the top ten anything for millions of people.
Is this the same guy who wrote this article?
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PHOENIX — Well-known travel icon Arthur Frommer said he’ll avoid visiting Arizona because state laws permit “thugs” and “extremists” to openly tote guns.
Frommer, the author of budget-travel guides, said on his blog Wednesday that he was “shocked beyond measure” by reports that protesters openly carried guns and rifles outside a Phoenix building where President Barack Obama spoke on Monday.
As a result, Frommer said he won’t be spending his tourism dollars at the Grand Canyon, or anywhere else in Arizona, because he doesn’t want to travel in a state where civilians carry loaded weapons as a means of political protest.
“I will cancel any plans to vacation or otherwise visit in Arizona until I learn more,” Frommer wrote. “And I will begin thinking about whether tourists should safeguard themselves by avoiding stays in Arizona.”
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon says he spoke with Frommer on Thursday and invited him to visit the city to clear up any possible misconceptions about safety.
More coverage at MyFOXPhoenix.com.
Funny thing, I never stayed O’nite there. More like Cambria, but I did some serious antique buying in Cayucos.
But you’re right, there’s not much there there. LOL
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