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Authentic Shopping Guide
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Ultimate Travel Library
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Austin Photo Gallery
Photographs by Will Van Overbeek  Text by Mary Beth LaRue
Photo: Front door of the Broken Spoke
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Text: Country legends George Strait, Willie Nelson, and Dolly Parton have all sauntered through the front door of the Broken Spoke to play at the honky-tonk dance hall. "This place signifies what Texas is all about, and people like to step back in time because I haven't changed nothing," says White. "I told the city that it's very important that I have a dirt parking lot, and if it's paved with anything, it will be beer caps."

Read more about Austin in the November/December 2006 issue of National Geographic Traveler.


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