{"id":379898,"date":"2026-07-20T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379898\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:42:08","slug":"texas-state-university-professor-brings-texas-travel-expertise-to-lonely-planet-hillviews-magazine-texas-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379898\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas State University Professor Brings Texas Travel Expertise to \u2018Lonely Planet\u2019 : Hillviews Magazine : Texas State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"large-text\">Dale Blasingame says\u00a0he\u2019d\u00a0never been much for road trips until about 15 years ago, when a dream about a cross-country trip inspired him to hit the road for a summer excursion through the Northern Rockies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Little could Blasingame, an associate professor of practice in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, have known that this initial foray into travel would lead to him developing a teaching specialty focused on travel to parks\u2014and the opportunity to contribute to\u00a0Lonely Planet, one of world\u2019s foremost travel guides.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Blasingame authored the Austin and South Texas sections of the newest edition of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.lonelyplanet.com\/products\/texas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lonely Planet Texas<\/a>. In it, he points readers to places both famous and obscure, ranging from Austin\u2019s Barton Springs Pool to Harlingen\u2019s Las Vegas Caf\u00e9.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIt was really cool going back to your hometown in the mindset of a tourist,\u201d says Blasingame, a TXST alum who grew up in Harlingen and has lived in Austin for the past 15 years. \u201cIt made me particularly happy to recommend some of the places that were important to me as a child.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Blasingame landed the\u00a0Lonely Planet\u00a0assignment based on his experience traveling throughout Texas with his dog, Lucy, and chronicling his adventures in social media and magazines.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Blasingame says\u00a0he\u2019d\u00a0never been much for road trips until about 15 years ago, when a dream about a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-379898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}