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So far, the Valentine Getaway ideas have been San Antonio and New Orleans. Both of those are a lot of fun, and #3 has the potential to be just as good.

For the second idea, we decided that we'd go one state over, into Louisiana. New Orleans it is. Laissez le bon temps rouler!

Now that we are EXACTLY ONE WEEK AWAY from V-Day, it's time to kick this list off.

Between now and V-Day, I'll be listing some awesome Valentine's Day Getaways that are within driving distance - some of them actually IN Deep East Texas.

The Texas Army National Guard is shutting the doors on some of its facilities, and the Lufkin unit is one of the sites that will close. Lufkin isn't alone.  It's part of a restructuring of the National Guard, and other Southeast Texas cities will also have National Guard units dissolved.