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Your A-List: Best Place to Take Tourists
I’m an inveterate tour guide. As a youth, I’d show visitors the hidden gems of Houston (most of them are well hidden).
Yet little did I know, when Kip and I moved to the Bouldin neighborhood 12 year ago, that a mostly decrepit strip of shops along nearby South Congress Avenue would become a top tourist attraction. As a pedestrian, I appreciated the incomplete commercial density, gentle grade and wide sidewalks. But tourist magnet? Twenty-four percent of A List voters think so.
SoCo beat out such powerhouses as the Oasis (19 percent); Barton Springs Pool (16 percent); Mount Bonnell (10 percent); and the Texas Capitol (10 percent).
Falling even further behind were the Lady Bird Lake Hike and Bike Trail (7 percent); Bullock Texas History Museum (5 percent); Zilker Park (3 percent); Whole Foods Market (2 percent) and UT Tower (1 percent).
Funny, you can reach all but two of these on foot from our house. Accidental tourists, we.
Picture: Bethany Andree of Snack Bar, the new SoCo social hub
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By Suzy
December 28, 2009 5:00 PM | Link to this
Hmmm. I am a happy and proud Bouldin resident too, but i can't say that *I* can reach all but two of those destinations on foot...you and Kip must be in much better shape than I :-)