The following is an excerpt from my upcoming quirky travel book, Unexpected Texas: Salt Palace in Grand Saline While the French equivalent of “window shopping” translates as “window licking” this is something that literally occurs every day at the Salt Palace in Grand Saline, Texas. The unusual building, which houses a visitor center and museum for the town and the nearby Morton Salt Company mine, is built entirely out of salt crystal bricks held together by a salt/mortar mixture. This strange combination proves tempting to many visitors who satisfy their curiosity by taking a tiny lick of its walls. The…
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Unexpected Texas is featured on Victoria’s Reading Alcove today Welcome to Day 4 of the #UnexTex Unexpected Texas Book Release Blog Tour for my quirky travel guide Unexpected Texas. It’s now on sale as a paperback and ebook on Amazon. Whoop w00t! Today, my book is featured at Victoria’s Reading Alcove. Victoria is a deep-thinking accountant who not only reads voraciously, but takes the time to analyze and digest what she reads. In a recent blog post entitled Time Warps and Other Voyages of the Mind she compares accounting to time travel. I’ve gotten to know Victoria mainly through Facebook.…