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FROUI$HEEDITORSDESK
SOMETIMES you feel like splurging;
sometimes you don't. Our theme this
month, Texas on a big budget and Texas
on a shoestring covers the state from east to
west and north to south. As with any issue of
the magazine, we can't cover every worthy
place. So we divided the state into its seven
tourism regions (our Texas Events Calendar
is organized by these regions every month),
and paired a writer with each region.
Then we let the writers decide what they
would include in their high-dollar and bar-
gain-basement choices. In addition to places
to eat, stay, and play, we left other elements
to each contributor's discretion. So you'll
find some writers including where to shop,
others focusing on swimming, hiking, bird-
ing, and other outdoor activities, and still
others including nightclubs and theaters as
their entertainment preferences.
With the variety in a state as vast as
Texas, there is no way we could possibly be
comprehensive, so we didn't try to be. For
instance, when associate editor and former
Lubbock resident Nola McKey read June
Naylor's excellent Panhandle Plains story,
Nola said that she was concerned about the
tons of references to Amarillo, and only one
to Lubbock. We decided that it was in-
evitable that there would appear to be a lack
of balance in such a large geographic area. I
wrote the Big Bend Region story, for exam-
ple, and didn't even mention Del Rio, which
is one of my favorite towns. So, rest assured
that we will get around to covering other
great places in Texas in the months and
years ahead.
For now, we just hope that the stories this
month whet your appetites to travel Texas
and sample some of the state's expensive
and inexpensive pleasures....
AS WE DO every September, this issue
includes our Where in Texas Are You? contest.
Turn to the inside back cover for informa-
tion on how to enter. This month's great prize
package was put together by our friends at
the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau
and at Southwest Airlines. We would like to
thank them for making this contest possible.~~
The buildings at UTEP are designed in a style inspired by
the architecture of Bhutan. See more on El Paso and the
Big Bend Region starting on page 30.
YOU'LL NOTICE that the prize includes a stay
at the new Hilton Garden Inn El Paso. The
hotel, which is scheduled to open in mid-
September, has architecture that should fit
right in with the nearby University of Texas at
El Paso (UTEP) campus. UTEP's architec-
ture, for its part, came about when Kathleen
Worrell, the wife of Dean Stephen Worrell
of the Texas State School of Mines and
Metallurgy (now UTEP), saw a National
Geographic article in 1914 and noticed how
much the mountains in Bhutan reminded
her of El Paso's Franklins. When the school
hired El Paso architect Henry Trost to
design the new campus, he looked to the
Himalyan kingdom's dzongs, or fortress-
monasteries, for inspiration. Old Main,
built in 1917 in the distinctive Bhutanese
style, is now a Registered Texas Historic
Landmark. UTEP's buildings, like dzongs,
feature high inward-sloping walls, with few
windows in the lower section of the wall,
high inset windows, a red stripe near the top
of the walls, and circular mosaic mandalas
that represent the energy of the cosmos and
the potential of every individual....
WHEW! Sounds like time to explore the
world at home and around us. Whether you
spend or scrimp, get out and discover Texas.THETRAEL AGAINEOF TEXAS
H I G H W A Y S
GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
RICK PERRY
TEXAS TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION
RIC WILLIAMSON Chair
HOPE ANDRADE Commissioner
TED HOUGHTON, JR. Commissioner
JOHN W. JOHNSON Commissioner
MICHAEL W. BEHRENS, RE. Executive Director
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE TRAVEL DIVISION
Division Director DORIS HOWDESHELL
Publisher KATHY MURPHY
Editor JACK LOWRY
Managing Editor JILL LAWLESS
Senior Editor ANN GALLAWAY
Associate Editor NOLA McKEY
Associate Editor LORI MOFFATT
Assistant Editor MARTY LANGE
Photography Editor MICHAEL A. MURPHY
Art Director JANE WU
Associate Art Director JANE SHARPE
Design Assistant KIRSTI HARMS
Editorial Assistant JENNIFER NALEWICKI
Editorial Intern JENNIFER LEE
Marketing Manager CINDY LEFFINGWELL
Circulation Manager CYNTHIA KOSEL
Business Manager LUCIA CORDOVA
Ancillary Products Manager BEVERLY WEST
Administrative Assistant LUPE VALDEZ
Texas Highways (ISSN 0040-4349) is published
monthly by the Texas Department of Transportation,
150 East Riverside Drive, Austin, Texas 78704. The
official travel magazine of Texas encourages rec-
reational travel within the state and tells the Texas
story to readers around the world.
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