Texas State College Professor Brings Texas Journey Experience to ‘Lonely Planet’ : Hillviews Journal : Texas State College

Dale Blasingame says he’d by no means been a lot for street journeys till about 15 years in the past, when a dream a couple of cross-country journey impressed him to hit the street for a summer season tour by way of the Northern Rockies. 

Little may Blasingame, an affiliate professor of follow within the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, have identified that this preliminary foray into journey would result in him growing a instructing specialty centered on journey to parks—and the chance to contribute to Lonely Planet, one in all world’s foremost journey guides. 

Blasingame authored the Austin and South Texas sections of the most recent version of Lonely Planet Texas. In it, he factors readers to locations each well-known and obscure, starting from Austin’s Barton Springs Pool to Harlingen’s Las Vegas Café. 

“It was really cool going back to your hometown in the mindset of a tourist,” says Blasingame, a TXST alum who grew up in Harlingen and has lived in Austin for the previous 15 years. “It made me particularly happy to recommend some of the places that were important to me as a child.” 

Blasingame landed the Lonely Planet task primarily based on his expertise touring all through Texas together with his canine, Lucy, and chronicling his adventures in social media and magazines.