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Small local shops will beckon, lunch at a local café will be just great and don’t forget to take lots of memory photos. The slower pace of this trip will be a sharp contrast with the usual hustle and bustle trips that you usually take.

My wife and I do this regularly all over the USA but we think Vermont is the best. Post script: Doing this trip South to North gives just about equal satisfaction.

It’s a lot of fun and sometimes you will see others in canoes stuck in the rocks. The fishing usually isn't the great and the water is really swallow in some parts but the winding river has a soothing, hypnotic effect and is a very satisfying experience that lasts for days after. I would highly recommend a day canoeing on the Delaware water gap if you’re in the New Jersey area.

Just to the north of Austin I have enjoyed escaping San Antonio to relax in a community that has all the charm of a "King of the Hill" episode. A few miles up I-35 from the Austin area, Round Rock, Texas offers all the attraction a family might want in a vacation site. The television show Friday Night Lights shot some footage in the Round Rock area. In the Round Rock area you can visit one of the most accessible caverns in Texas in Inner Space Caverns; it has a super water area in Lake Travis and some of the most beautiful parks and challenging golf courses in the region.

If baseball is your sport, the Round Rock Express plays their home games at spacious Dell Diamond where as a "Triple A" minor league team you can literally see next year's major leaguers today. There is no shortage of places to eat and, yes, TexMex is almost always on the menu. Prices for food and attractions are reasonable since Round Rock has one of lowest property tax and utility tax rates in the region.

Even the price of lodging is significantly lower than what you would pay the closer you get to the University of Texas in Austin. Being almost smack dab in the middle of the state, the locals escape much of the drought and heat of South Texas as well as the chilly winter snows that hit Dallas during the winter months. This also makes planning an escape to Round Rock a year round opportunity.

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