West through the Hill Country. Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Narrated by The ChroniclerFocus: BBQ & Roadside Food Lore126 km · about 86 min · 17 stories
The stories
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
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Austin, Texas
The Founding of Wheatville
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Austin, Texas
The Texas Meat Market Tradition
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Austin, Texas
The Founding of Wild Basin
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Austin, Texas
The Daily Life of Drovers
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Dripping Springs, Texas
The Camp Ben McCulloch Reunions
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Dripping Springs, Texas
The Dr. Joseph Pound Farmstead
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Dripping Springs, Texas
The Pitmasters of Llano
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Johnson City, Texas
The Lights Spectacular Tradition
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Johnson City, Texas
The Texas Dance Hall Tradition
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Johnson City, Texas
The Texas German Cultural Exchange
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Johnson City, Texas
Israel Nunez and Stonewall
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Johnson City, Texas
The Stonewall Peach Jamboree
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Stonewall, Texas
The Luckenbach Dance Hall
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Stonewall, Texas
The Mexican Eagle of the Plains
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Fredericksburg, Texas
The Vanished Mormon Settlement
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Fredericksburg, Texas
Fredericksburg's Culinary Tourism Shift
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Fredericksburg, Texas
The Nimitz Hotel and Museum
Where the stories come from
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.