MOON HANDBOOKS TEXAS

Want to know about fiestas in San Antonio, gourmet eateries in Dallas, or the music scene in Austin? Done. Looking for details on rafting the Rio Grande or sampling the goods at the World Championship Chili Cookoff? You’ll find them in here. Big or small, mainstream or obscure, every worthwhile sight and activity in Texas is covered in this book.

"I've read a bunch of Texas guidebooks, and this is the best one." —Joe Bob Briggs

Moon Handbooks Texas
5th Edition
Joe Cummings
ISBN 1-56691-393-4
$18.95
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Joe Cummings was born in New Orleans and raised in California, France, Texas, and Washington, D.C. He spent a good part of his childhood in San Antonio, Texas, where he ate his first taco in the 1960s during one of his family's frequent Mexican border town visits. After that, he always preferred tacos to burgers, so his mom had to learn how to make them—well ahead of the Mexican food craze that would sweep across America in the 1970s.
   Joe's love of Tex-Mex border culture drew him deeper into Mexico, where he explored the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts and the famed Copper Canyon, to research and write Moon Handbooks Northern Mexico. He took an epic road trip down Baja's Transpeninsular Highway in 1991 to write Moon Handbooks Baja. Impressed by the juxtaposition of history, nature, and solitude that suited his restless spirit, he eventually built a Baja hideout five minutes from the Pacific Ocean.
   In addition to authoring Moon Handbooks to Baja, Cabo, Mexico, Mexico City, Northern Mexico, and Texas, Joe has written numerous other guidebooks, phrasebooks, and atlases for countries around the world. As a freelance journalist, Joe has also contributed to dozens of periodicals, including Ambassador, BBC Holidays, Car & Travel, Geographical, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, Los Angeles Times, Outside, San Francisco Examiner, South China Morning Post, Via, and The Wall Street Journal. He has twice received the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award, and twice been a finalist in London's Thomas Cook Guidebook of the Year awards. In 2001, the government of Mexico awarded the Pluma de Plata (Silver Quill) to Joe for "outstanding foreign journalism" on Mexico. Joe divides his time between homes in Baja and Thailand.

Other travel guides authored by Joe Cummings:
Moon Handbooks Baja
Moon Handbooks Cabo
Moon Handbooks Mexico
Moon Handbooks Mexico City
Moon Handbooks Northern Mexico