Hints and tips:
...Of course, this is not the open prairie — Fort Worth is a city with gleaming high-rise towers downtown, a 112-year old symphony orchestra and world-class museums....
...up before I run out, so I’d be happy to road-test this new addition to the collection....
...Even his reds are cold as ice. But he’s a man for our season....
...There is also a packet of raw summer vegetables: carrot, radish, red pepper, fennel, with pea hummus, which is something I’ve never heard of before. Would I buy pea hummus again?...
...pinned to the top of a vast horizontal collage look down like two wide eyes on the American dream: coloured maps of the 50 states on a pink panel; photographs of hurtling athletes, pick-up trucks, unending prairie...
...La Prairie, UV Protection Veil SPF 50, £145, John Lewis La Prairie’s SPF 50 Veil is super-lightweight and quickly absorbs into the skin....
...This is a book with fresh air gusting out of it, banks of violets, riots of wildflowers, miles of forest spread as far as the eye can see: sugar maple, red oak, burr oak, basswood and elm....
...Scholars and surfers alike have a mental picture of that gaunt couple, upright and stoic before their plain prairie home....
...Perhaps to one side, denim, cowboy boots, and the red, white and blue mean tolerance and openness to immigration. To another it might mean traditionalism, individualism and industry....
...Their nearest neighbour is 54 miles away (and the closest road 98 miles)....
...By 1935, hard-edged stylisation evokes instead eerie atmosphere and suspense in “Death on the Ridge Road”, where a black sedan hurtles towards a collision with a red truck as it crests a hillside lane....
...We pass another house, with a façade like a red prairie barn, where Ruby once lived, now occupied by his studio director, Tyler Britt....
...Constructed from salvaged Douglas fir and red spruce harvested locally, it has overhanging upper storeys and white cedar shingles....
...One flew from Kansas to “Munchkinland” in a cyclone, the other was driven 600ft down South Prairie Avenue with the help of 29 remote-controlled hydraulic dollies (low, mobile platforms)....
...But more than life on the road …” She pauses....
...The path was wide and Balbontin said there was talk of turning it into a road to connect the pueblo with the aerodrome....
...At low tide it vanished altogether, leaving a prairie of sea grass. Our second hotel, on the north coast, was more ambitious....
...But Lolita, a story of forbidden encounters in seedy motels, is, nonetheless, a classic American road novel, appearing two years before Jack Kerouac’s On the Road....
...My priority was to see the little-visited Elkhorn Ranch site, 35 miles north of Medora on a dodgy dirt road....
...If they do I suppose it will be the usual red tape about time paradoxes and all that....
...Its Renata de Abreu Spa, which opened in January (and uses La Prairie products), is exceptional even by the standards of a city that takes beauty therapy very seriously indeed....
...The more we invest at the front end, the more it saves us down the road.” Christopher Bowe is the FT’s US healthcare correspondent...
...“Pulling Alert”, as the missileers call it, means waiting and watching in bunkers 70ft below the prairie....
...As for my own massage, well, I’ve already booked a Bharti Vyas treatment this month to keep me on a low-stress road....
...Then there’s the Flower Trial Garden, where Hutson and her team road test new varietals....
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