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The author of this month’s cover story, associate editor Emily McCullar, is an avid wanderer. To experience our state’s abundance of quirky roadside attractions, Emily drove 2,600 miles in just eight days, meandering from Amarillo to New Braunfels, fueled by frequent stops for iced beverages at HTeaO shops. “I love driving around Texas,” she says. “And I love things that make people happy in silly ways”—including giant likenesses of armadillos and cowboys and roadrunners.For three months last fall, Emily embarked on a longer and more personal journey, in the footsteps of her mother, who had died of breast cancer 25 years earlier, when Emily was ten years old. Emily’s mom had traveled across Europe with a group of friends—her first trip outside the U.S.—between her…

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