Travels with Larry Olmsted

Great Urban Weekend Escapes: Austin, TX

everett / February 23, 2015 / 0 / 690

AustinCityLimitsMusicFestival-credit-Ashley-Garmon — Austin is home to several major annual events, including the Austin City Limits music festival, held in Zilker Park downtown. Photo: Ashley Garmon.

By Larry Olmsted

Welcome back to “Great Urban Weekend Escapes.” Since the famous Austin City Limits music festival just finished, it seems like a perfect time for this column to visit Texas’ capitol city. Austin has been one of the country’s hottest, trendiest and fastest rising destinations for several years, and for very good reasons. It makes an absolutely perfect long weekend getaway.

Continue reading …

Award-winning travel journalist Larry Olmsted is a Contributing Editor to US Airways Magazine and Cigar Aficionado Magazine and “The Great Life” columnist for Forbes.com.

Tags:Austin Austin City Limits barbecue Texas

The Author

everett

No Comment

Leave a reply Cancel reply

Terrific story, Monique. I, too, was deeply moved by visits to Berlin and other cities in Germany.

Marian Betancourt

on Berlin Memoir

Do you swing dance as well as you ski (and write)? Nicely done!

Cathie Arquilla

on My Favorite Things: Copper and A-Basin

Thanks Joanie, glad you had a great time!

on Hidden Iceland: Avoiding the Crowds

Earlier this fall, I read Everett's Potter review of the Connaught Hotel Bar in London. My daughter and I spent 9 days in London for the Christmas season. It was…

Joanie Donohue Wegemann

on Hidden Iceland: Avoiding the Crowds

Always good to see a report from the ever-amiable John Lampl! John Mariani

on Weekend in Ogden: Hill Aeropsace Museum

SHARE

Great Urban Weekend Escapes: Austin, TX