Field Guide - San Antonio

Tourist destination and model of diversity, San Antonio is a city with ancient roots, tapped into its singular river, the free-flowing lifeline of life past and present.

"When people hear San Antonio, they think brown and dusty. But the truth is for thousands of years it has been an oasis." - IRBY HIGHTOWER

LOCAL STORIES, TRAVEL INTEL AND MODERN LORE, INCLUDING:

• An illustrated map of Tex-Mex cuisine
• Christmas tamales: deconstructed
• The best of Flaco Jimí©nez and George Strait
• Jack Kerouac's On The Road stop in town
• A longform ode to San Antonio's diverse musical history
• The story of Blues legend Robert Johnson
• Day trips into the Hill Country
• Insights from a fourth-generation healer
• An interview with the owner of a Texas dancehall
• The Charreada rodeo's main events