When I was a kid, Christmas shopping was a whole different experience.

Fried turkey, the HEB Thanks giving Parade, and the Turket Trots, all to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Every March the small town of Sweetwater Texas comes alive  with a wild event call the Sweetwater Rattle Snake Rodeo'

Sugar Land was originally home to Imperial Sugar Company.

Texas BBQ is not just a meal, it's a way of life!

It's a vast rugged stretch of land that covers more than 37,000 square miles from Austin and San Antonio all the way west to the Pecos River.

Back in the 1700s Spainish missionaries built five missions along tghe San Antonio River.

The Big Country is a wide open area of Texas around Abilene, Sweetwater, and Brownwood where the sky feels like it goes on foreever.

It's sometimes called the Grand Canyon of Texas. Palo Duro Canyon is the second largest canyon in the United States.

John Henry Kirby was known as the Piney Woods King because of his timber empire.