20 Things to Love About Dallas (and 1 1/2 to hate)
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This experienced travel writer just wants to stay home for awhile. But her husband has a project in Dallas, so she finds herself visiting the city, over and over and over for a year. Determined to make the most of the situation, she decides to find 20 things to love about Dallas. Much more than a list, this well-researched collection of ideas covers dining (from gourmet to unusual). birdwatching, Art, historical districts, hiking, music, jogging routes and one very bad pickle.
Nanci Tangeman has traveled the world and lived on three continents. Her portfolio includes publishing the only English-language cultural newsletter (at the time) in Uzbekistan; writing a restaurant column for Amsterdam's independent newspaper and reporting on luxury travel for a US travel publication for over a decade.
Whether you're relaxing after a tough day of business, or faced with entertaining the family on a hot, humid afternoon, you'll enjoy this quality travel reporting. A unique, if irreverent, tour of the city for you via your electronic reader.
Nanci Tangeman
Nanci Tangeman is an American writer who has lived in England, Uzbekistan, The Netherlands and Switzerland. During her years abroad, her specialty was writing “anything in English” for corporate and non-profit clients. Travel and cultural writing highlights include publishing the only English-language cultural newsletter (at the time) in Uzbekistan, as well as writing a restaurant column (The Mouth) for the independent newspaper, Amsterdam Weekly, and being a long-time correspondent for Passport Newsletter, specializing in luxury travel. Nanci is the author of Forty Excuses to Get Together with the Girls. Her portfolio is online at www.nancitangeman.com.
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20 Things to Love About Dallas (and 1 1/2 to hate) - Nanci Tangeman
20 Things to Love About Dallas
(And 1 1/2 to Hate)
By Nanci Tangeman
Copyright 2011 Nanci Tangeman
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All text and photographs by Nanci Tangeman.
For Chris, who always gets me into these situations.
Table of Contents
Foreword
#1 Where BAD is Good
#2 That’s right. You’re not from Texas
#3 New Urbanism Meets Historic Architecture
#4 History Has a Clanging Bell
#5 Run Free, Little Buckaroo
#6 Wild, Wild West
Something to Hate
#7 No-Brainer Cinema Solution
#8 What Texas Does Best?
#9 Craving the Forbidden Fruit
#10 Eye-to-Eye with a Very Tall Guy
#11 Rightful Bragging Rights
#12 Quite a Place for a Quiet Interlude
#13 Keeping Up With the Jones’ Art Collection
#14 Fill ‘er Up: Or Fill Yourself Up
#15 Looking for Opie
#16 Drinking the Kool-Aid (Or Crunching It)
#17 Big Flag. No Story.
#18 It’s Not About Cutlery
#19 Why You Bought This
#20 You had me at Bluebonnets
About the Author
Foreword
When I was a preteen, I had a poster on my bedroom wall. It showed a cartoon figure with lemons going into its head and yellow liquid spewing out of its nose. Underneath it said, When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Trite but deep for a 10-year-old. When my friends weren’t making sick comments about the nose spigot, I more-or-less followed the poster’s advice.
Over the years, making lemonade
went through many nuanced translations: denial, naivety, stupidity, guts. And, I have to admit, a few times I just broke down and cursed at life’s lemons. But still, a little puddle of that poster’s lemonade pooled in my psyche somewhere.
Flash forward several decades. My husband has a long-term business