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Dallas Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dallas, United States
Dallas
Carlos and Diane gave us a cooked breakfast, which was very welcome. We had a look around the city, saw the downtown redevelopment centre comprising a small area of skyscrapers surrounded by poor, older buildings. We visited the JFK memorial and the ...
American Hospitality Again
... for a swim at Lake Dallas. It was good to be back in warmer weather and have warm water for swimming. We arrived in Dallas around 2000. After an ice cream we went to the Quiet Man Bar: it had a few rather odd customers. After a ...
Welcome to Texas, Now Go Home
... this mostly flat piece of BIG land... since 1519 it has been claimed by six different countries: the Spanish, French, Mexican, Texan, United States and the Confederate States of America... Our main reasons for heading to Texas was to spend time in ...
Adventures in Dallas Part 1.
... practice some Amma bhajans (devotional songs). After the rest was over we cruised through rural Texas to finally reach Dallas. I stayed at an interesting womans house who was and "alternative lifestyle" model complete with piercings, tatoos, and ...
Otacame plachty na vychod
... 1992 plavil na plti po Dunajci na Polsko-slovenskych hraniciach. Letisko v Dallase je obrovitanske letisko (oficialne sa vola Dallas/Fort Worth - pretoze sluzi tymto dvom mestam, ktore prerastli v jedno). Maju tu automaticky vlak, ktorym sa prepravovat ...
Gearing Up For Another Trip
Well, the China trip is definitely over. All in all, it was a great trip. I would have liked to have more time to see the sights and enjoy the learning about China's culture. It would be fun to go back one day, but next time to Beijing and the great ...
NEAR THE END
Family, Friends, New Friends, Thanks & Appreciations What an incredible trip! I am tired! Whew! Now, I need a vacation from my vacation! That means....a job! Ha! I have enjoyed traveling around and meeting some great new people, with whom I am ...
Cowboys and 2 Indians
... full of characters. Read the second hunger games book, and have to admit I saw those twists coming a mile off. Got into Dallas late afternoon, before picking up the car and heading to hotel. Dallas has a few skyscrapers, but the area is ...
THE END
Reflections, Thoughts & Ponderings It has indeed been an adventure. I have learned a lot from this trip, and had a pretty good time. Mostly, I have learned to appreciate where I live and what I have, and the happy and uplifting people in my ...
Preparations
Well, I'm still in Dallas. But I figure this would be a good time to start writing down what's happening. I've been simultaneously packing for the trip and unpacking (since I just got back from school). Interestingly enough, I'm having a harder time ...
NADRA Members in Texas
We met with NADRA Member, Eric Snyder from Deck Masters. www.deckpictures.com Eric gave us a wonderful tour of the facility. Deck Masters offer the full package complete with lumber yard, retail store and deck building company. ...
Reflections...
... its high vantage point was thwarted due to the fact that it was closed for renovation. On a more serious note Dallas is also remembered of course as being the city where JFK was assassinated. To our generation most of whom ...
Dallas, Texas
Cowboy country, yee-ha!! We flew into Dallas via Denver - there were no direct flights. Although it allowe us to admire locals big hats and crazy cowboy boots. However, neither of us are very well. We are both suffering from chest infections and so ...
Respect for the living letters
When our Indian exchange student Manu arrived last fall, he presented us with a book on the Hindu religion. It was a nice, large paperback with colorful artwork, written by a western-educated businessman who is also a respected Vedic scholar. We ...
First leg... Dallas, Texas
Well, we made it to Dallas,Tx. via Houston from Nashville! Our flight was only delayed by about a half-hour. Unfortunately our luggage wasn't so lucky. None of our five bags arrived when we did in Dallas. We were never made sure whether they got hung up ...
26th July - Destination: Dallas
... Everyone awoke surprisingly sprightly despite the late night last night. We hit the road just after 8 a.m. to make the journey to Dallas. There were no particularly interesting stops on the way (that I can remember at least) and we arrived in Dallas ...
Wellington-Auckland-LA-Las Vegas-Dallas
... everyone clapped when we landed. Very brown outside, brown everywhere. From the air Vegas looks bigger than Auckland. The flight on to Dallas was no problems and we landed about 6pm I think. We managed to get the hotel shuttle to the hotel and checked ...
Early Morning, Chili, Baseball and Late Niight
... , but not biggie. Game wasn't until 7:05 tonight. We landed at almost on time at DAL (Love Field) not DFW (Dallas - Ft.Worth International). If you've ever flown Southwest into Dallas, you know they fly into this rather small (comparatively) ...
Taking the fork to Southfork
... TINY! It doesn't look much bigger than most suburban houses. Either way, I was still excited. After passing through the Dallas souvenir shop, we bought tickets, walked through the Dallas museum and then boarded the tractor pulled tourist tram which drove ...
Back in the USA
Being back in the USA has been great! Wow- Everything's big in Texas! holy smokes. The first few days back have been a get things taken care of and adjust time zones. Some biking and swimming, church, hair, doc, dentist... the usual... Nothing too ...
Safe and sound- Back in Texas
So.. we made it back safe to Texas. This morning, we waited in the hotel lobby waiting for news to see if we'd be able to leave. Taxis weren't running but we caught a ride with an American who'd moved there, and some shuttles for a missionary group that ...
Post Departure Information
Hola! Only 3 more days until i leave for a semester in Sevilla, and i have lots of information about my accomodations. I will be living with a family in Sevilla while i'm studying. Family: Pilar de la Cerda Japon, wife, year of birth 1958, ...
Dallas is the starting place
Well - I just got back from a week in London and Paris. I showed up to work on a Wednesday. Thursday I was told I needed to go to Malaysia for 2 weeks. I left on ...
Dallas DFW - "Bigger than Manhattan"
I'm on a crappy internet kiosk in Dallas Airport which is enormous and has like a neighborhood of shopping and stores in it. It's ridiculously large and futuristic and sterile. Just wanted to let you all know that I departed SF this AM at 6 (thanks for ...
Dallas Airport
Wow! This airport is lovely. We flew from San Antonio to Dallas, a fairly short flight in the great scheme of things, and had a fairly long layover. The seating was arranged in pods of six comfortable chairs in a horse shoe arrangement around a tv. All ...
Happy New Years - The Last Entry
New Years Eve in America...lots of fun. I started the night by having dinner with Tboy and Holly at their friend Justyne's apartment, who made a nice little fish dinner. After dinner, we went to a small party at their friend Jessica's place before I ...
A market in Texas - it has to be big!
Well despite travelling north we now find ourselves in some pleasant weather at last; here we are in the Metroplex aca Dallas Fort Worth, a sprawling mass that joins Fort Worth with Dallas. We have found a great campsite that is actually in Arlington ...