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This article is part of Relax Already!, our guide to Texas spa offerings. I first saw West Texas when I moved to Austin from California last year. It wasn’t a good time. I barely registered the dry flatness of much of the terrain after I entered my new home state on Interstate 10 during the last leg of a three-day journey, my car packed with the belongings I had carefully picked out of the Bay Area apartment where I had lived with my wife. It was stipulated in the divorce that I had rights to half of our shared possessions, but I wanted to travel as light as possible. I was ready for a fresh start.Embarking on a new phase of life turned out to be as…

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