Today, first-class observation cars with panoramic windows let leaf-peeping tourists zoom through the hill country in one day.
That's partly because the government has been fighting ethnic rebels, mostly in the hill country of the north.
Yet for all of the natural beauty of the hill country, its most memorable aspect may well be the journey itself.
Guitarist Luther Dickinson says he formed the band to play hill country blues.
The heart of Hill Country lies about 70 miles west of Austin.
Caro has a moving description of housewives and their iron stoves in the days before electricity came to the Hill Country.
Southern food, Mr. Stitt said, can be broken down into three categories: hill country Appalachian, low-country and Louisiana Cajun and Creole.
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As viewed through a windscreen, the Hill Country seems full of plump oak trees and well-watered meadows, almost European in aspect.
Nestled in the Texas hill country in Austin's outskirts, the telecom and electro unit ought to be leading 3M into the future.
AppalRed provides free legal assistance to low income persons in 37 counties, located primarily in the Appalachian hill country of Eastern Kentucky.
There's the Gulf Coast, Texas Hill Country, the Great Plains, Sonoran Desert, Rocky Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Lakes, and so on.
Early in his career, Fisk might have appeared like a wacky wizard working in a secret laboratory in the Texas Hill country mesquite brush.
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Travelling upcountry to Kandy, the green hill country heart of Sri Lanka, the architectural legacy moves from colonial to religious, with Buddhist structures in abundance.
The JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa (San Antonio, TX) is offering a special Tax Day Retreat spa treatment until April 30.
During the process, I checked in with my friend and barbecue expert Elizabeth Karmel, North Carolina native and executive chef of Hill Country Barbecue in New York.
If the story of chilli is the story of Texas, the whole book is neatly abridged in the Hill Country, the rolling uplands north of San Antonio.
The millions of Southerners from the hill country and the border states who couldn't afford slave labor or had no need for it on their hardscrabble farms were unrepresented.
This suggestion comes from Texan Greg Kagay, the securities analyst who left New York last decade to set up shop in the Texas Hill Country, to the envy of his friends.
Different life experiences altogether, but in each case, the core lessons, the character-setting events, all occurred in haberdashery shops and Texas Hill Country classrooms and practicing law with Phil Buchen in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
But many of Hill Country's newest wineries are popping up much closer to Austin - only about 30 miles away - making it even more convenient for city dwellers seeking the wine country experience.
The Arab state would have included not only what Resolution 181 referred to as "the Gaza District" and "the hill country of Samaria and Judea, " but also such other territories as the western Galilee.
The gateway to the hill country is Kandy, the capital of an ancient Sri Lankan kingdom that, thanks to its strategic elevated position, held off 16th-century European invaders for several hundred years longer than the rest of the island.
This time Mr Thant's travels take him to Myanmar's hill country, near the Chinese border, to the other side of the frontier, in Yunnan province, and to Assam and Manipur in north-east India, on Myanmar's other flank.
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The sprawling Hill Country compound boasts five dwellings including a 9, 950-square foot main house, multiple garages, a mega indoor sports complex, a plethora of outdoor sports courts, skeet shooting, an archery area, and a seven-acre pond stocked with fish.
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For the first time in over 30 years, the Lebanese authorities have regained control of the turbulent hill-country along Israel's northern border.
In 2001 the government let Waters plead to kidnapping in exchange for information about where he'd buried the partially dismembered bodies--in a shallow grave on a remote Texas hill-country ranch.
President Bush and what is left of the GOP on Capitol Hill and around the country would do well to heed this skilled operative's critique - and the insights it provides for the way ahead in such a dangerous time of war.
Combined with his seven wins apiece at both Firestone Country Club and Bay Hill Club and Lodge, 22 of Woods' 75 career wins have now come at just three courses.
Several reliably pinko city councils across the country, including Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Marlboro, Vermont, and San Francisco have passed resolutions urging impeachment, and state legislatures in Vermont, California and Illinois have resolutions pending.
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The trio, who previously lived in Daisy Hill Road, Bradford, fled the country in March 2008 after the gang's leader Lubomir Kora was arrested.
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