AMY C BALFOUR : Amy has hiked. biked. skied and gambled her way across the Southwest. She has authored or co-authored more than 15 books for Lonely Planet and has written for Backpacker, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Redbook, Southern Living and Women's Health. LISA DUNFORD : Does living in a state for 22 years, marrying a native and learning to speak the language mean someone can become a naturalized Texan ? Lisa sure hopes so.
Over the years she 's logged tens of thousands of miles exploring her adopted home. She loves cruising the country roads seeing what there is to see - a cow in a bluebonnet field, or an old barnlike dance hall. She's bought boys drinks at the Continental Club in Austin, ridden the rides at the State Fair in Dallas and sailed on Corpus Christi Bay. Before becoming a freelance writer, Lisa was a restaurant reviewer and an editor in the features department at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times newspaper.
Now no matter where she roams, she always returns to the patch of riverfront east of Houston that she, her husband and their dogs call home.