Category: Texas

The University of North Texas

The University of North Texas (UNT) offers a rich, full campus life for mean green student-athletes. The University is one of the largest universities in the nation, has more than 35,000 students, and is located in the city of Denton that has a population of more than 135.000.

Denton is located some 30 minutes north of Fort Worth and Dallas and has often been ranked as one of the Best Small Towns in America.

The Univesity of North Texas is historically recognized as a great education, art, and music school and the school continues that rich tradition. Additionally, North Texas has increased its influence in sciences, research, business, and engineering.

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Why I Like Texas And Texans

My dad always taught me to ‘think like a Texan’. He used to say ‘I like Texas and Texans’. ‘In our beloved Texas, all things are bigger. When a Texan wins, he wins big. And when a Texan loses, he loses big’. ‘Do Texans like losing?” I asked my dad, and he replied ‘That is not what I say. No one likes to lose’. He said: ‘Show me happy losers, and I show you losers’. So let’s see why I like Texas and Texans.

That’s the Texan attitude toward taking risks. I’m talking about reward and failure, it’s all about how Texans handle life. They live and think big. So different from most people that live around here.

When it comes to money, the people from here live like roaches and are so afraid that somebody might see them, while the whimper if a grocery help will shortchange them a quarter’, my dad kept on talking. ‘That Texas attitude is what I like best about the Texans.’

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The Five Biggest Cities In Texas

Texas is after Alaska the biggest state in America, and in 1845 the state became the 28th state that joined the Union of the United States of America. Let’s take a look in this post at the five biggest cities in Texas. The following video explains something about the fastest growing cities in Texas and some more demographics:

Texas measures over 261,000 square miles and has the second largest population of all states (25 million). The state counts more than 1,200 cities, of which 38 have a population that exceeds 100,000. Texas is also a residence state for many well-known business schools and therefore supports the development of business in the whole region.

All cities below include over 700,000 residents while the largest three (Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas) have more than 1 million citizens.

When it comes to the top-10 of leading U.S. metropolitan areas, the Dallas area is 4th while the Houston area is 5th, meaning that Texas has the most populous regions in America, more than any other state. But here we just look at the number of citizens in the cities, we don’t consider the number of people living in specific metropolitan areas.

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How Come Everything Is Bigger In Texas?

Texas is a big state, just Alaska is bigger, and when you consider livable land, the state Texas is the absolutely the biggest state (though there are individuals like Sam Morningstar who believe that San Angelo is not livable at all). So let’s see, how come everything is BIGGER in Texas?

The people that in earlier times settled down in Texas included several dreamers who wished to create a state where everything would be the world’s biggest, the largest market, the biggest ranch, the biggest business, and so on, and that typical Texan ‘Think Big’ mindset is still existing across much of Texas today.

Regardless of whether someone is a hero or a crook, they just are striving to be the best, the biggest, or the most famous. This ‘Think Big’ mentality may sometimes carry an individual to excess, but in Texas, these characters are cherished, especially when they’re a little crazy.

On the other hand, the name Texas was derived from ‘tejas’, a word from the Caddo tribe language that means ‘friendly’.

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Checking out the World’s Largest State Fair

Happy New Year everybody! Wanna know the best thing I did last year? Checking out the State Fair of Texas!

The Fair is recognized as the World’s Largest State Fair with almost three million visitors in attendance in 2018. Last year’s fair kicked off on Friday, September 30th and we were there on Saturday to enjoy the festivities with a toddler, no teenager in tow. We headed to Fair Park on Saturday morning with a bustling two-year-old ready to conquer the fair.

The State Fair of Texas last 24 days and this annual event is held at historic Fair Park in Dallas. The fair has been around since 1886 and is organized every year except during World Wars I and II. Given my disdain for crowds, I was trying to convince myself this would not be so bad.

After all, it is early and we won’t be there long.  Right?  So we get off our exit to loads of people in neon yellow vest flagging us into different parking areas… I am thinking… okay, this seems to have some order to it.  Maybe I can handle this.

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Lake Austin Spa Resort, Texas

Wandering through the rotunda of the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, I approach two uniformed Texas Rangers and ask for directions. One ranger just stares coldly for a few moments, and then it hits me. He knows I’ve just spent two days at a health spa. It’s written all over my perfumed sissy face. He smells the lavender. He sees my baby skin as sleek as a porpoise, my limp and soggy spine. In his eyes, I’m a little poofter wearing a powdered wig and knee-length satin pants. I feel like saying, “Hey, it’s your state that made me this way.”

The Lake Austin Spa Resort, 30 minutes outside of Austin, has been named a top 10 destination spa by the Zagat Survey, as well as one of the “Top 50 Best Kept Secrets in the World” by Travel and Leisure. It’s definitely a secret. Who knew there would be anything healthy in meat-eatin’, boot-stompin’ Texas, much less a peaceful sanctuary in the hilly green countryside, a few miles from Willie Nelson’s ranch? But there it is, a former guest lodge undergoing a multimillion-dollar renovation. I pull up to the wrought-iron double gates and extinguish my cigar because it’s a $200 fine “if smoking occurs in the rooms.” And at about $420 per night (off-peak), there’s no need to get carried away.

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More Beautiful Texas Towns

Texas, the Lone Star State, is the second-largest U.S. state. Texas is offering us the most beautiful landscapes, booming big cities, the finest restaurants, and several charming and friendly towns. Texas is geographically highly diversified, and all regions have their own culture, characteristics, and economy.

If you travel through Texas you can see the Gulf of Mexico beaches. Houston’s skyscrapers, visit ‘Big D’, aka Dallas, check out if Austin is as weird as they say, or enjoy a bit of Mexican culture and class in San Antonio. If you’re only checking out Texas’ big cities, you’ll be missing so much of the real things that make Texas what it is.

There are numerous small cities that are laden with historical sights, so if you set out for El Paso, don’t forget to check out placed like Alpine, Terlingua, or Marfa. In case you really need to go to Oklahoma, don’t forget to visit Seymour while you’re in the area. There are so many quaint and interesting towns around in Texas, and here we highlight a few very pretty ones, Hunt, Marfa, and Salado.

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Beautiful Texas Towns

Texas is America’s second-largest state and offers a great number of the most charming towns, thriving cities, and stunning landscapes. All of the Texas regions feature an economy with its own characteristics, varied geography, and highly diverse culture.

We’ve been looking around in the great state of Texas and, in our humble opinion, found the towns and cities listed below pretty charming and attractive.

So check out our list of the most charming and beautiful Texas towns in Texas you really should visit when you’re in the Lone Star State. This is part one of our series about interesting Texas towns: Fredericksburg, Jefferson, and Wimberley

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Round Top Texas Antiques Fair

Round Top, Texas, is a quaint little community of 93 people (really, in the entire town) that’s nestled between Houston and Austin on US 290 (Texas 237). The name ‘Round Top’ comes from the house of the postmaster that had a round tower, and the town is famous for its art scene, the pie at Royers Cafe, and its famous annual Antiques Fair.

Every summer, Round Top is actually the home of two more visitor-drawing programs. The town is host to many students that perform at the town’s Festival Hill music institute, and the Shakespeare at Winedale program is a Shakespeare-in-Performance program organized by the English Department of the University of Texas at Austin, that offers visitors and locals phenomenal theatrical and symphonic performances. But the most famous event is the Antiques Fair.

So the town has 93 resident ….but watch out when the trailers move in …

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More Odd Texas Town Names

In this post, we’ll tell you something about a few more towns with odd names. And it’s not only about odd town names… Pronouncing some Texas town names may, at times, also be a pain. Have fun:

Bacon: The town of Bacon is located in Wichita County. and within the city limits of Wichita Falls. Bacon is no longer an independent town, but the name may still run a little water down your mouth.

Bangs: The town of Bangs is located in Brown County (west-central Texas) and has a population of around 1,600 (2016). The town was named after Samuel Bangs who received the land as appreciation for his contribution to the Texas Revolution. Bangs was incorporated in 1915 and is located along US Highway 67.

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