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Discover America, a website created by the U.S. Travel Association, wants to give stuff away (well, at least discount some things every day with): Daily Getaways.

The idea is offer a little inspiration for places around America at a discount — which is about as American as any trip can get. (All told, the site has 25 leading travel companies including American Express, which is the site’s lead sponsor.)

Every day the site offers a package, a deal or some sort of package — today it’s a big deal on a

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four-person trip to Austin Music Experience. (This one you have to bid to grab a five-day deal that takes you through some of the hottest hotels, music clubs and even lets you leave with a guitar strapped to your back.) Bids start at $2,400.

There are also a number of hotel deals being offered for the day, as well as other destinations thrown in.

Dreaming about traveling is free, finding a good deal, that’s just priceless (and we know, that’s a different credit card’s motto, we just think it applies here too).

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Plane tickets start at $144 and hotel rooms are 50 percent off. Check out all of their prices here.

Now is all of this worth a weekend in Dallas? Maybe for Americans, definitely for foreigners — it’s a chunk of Americana you just can’t get without out grilling, beer drinking and car shows. The weather has calmed and the local newspapers have stopped their Consecutive Days in Row over 100 degrees count, as well as its Heat Exhaustion Death Toll for 2009.

Also, where else can you dress up like one of the Village People and not have anyone else bat an eye at you? Happens at the State Fair stays at the State Fair.

While it’s likely many hipsters attending could end up in thumped on their fedoras and tossed into the bed of of a pickup, we would advise caution.  However, heading down there could mean a pair of cowboy boots that will make your freminies jealous and provide you with a little more swagger on those long walks to the martini bar.

And if the state fair isn’t your game, there’s still some hip and happening places.

Head over to The Double Wide bar for a glass of suds — the name alone brings great thoughts of slumming.

And you can stay at the Belmont Hotel, one of the growing hipster hangouts that mixes old school motor lodge with fine dining and a pool. It’s the kind of place Patrick Bateman would stay before starting another American Psycho rampage.

And don’t forget to stop by Art Prostitute Gallery to check out some Dallas’ trendiest artwork. You may not be able to afford a painting but you could grab a copy of one of their books (or magazine) to leave on your coffee table at home.

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