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Seattle - Memorial Day weekend , Day 2-3, Olympia National Park

A trip to Texas, Dallas Day 1

I started my weekend trip to Texas in Dallas. I had always wanted to visit Texas and this was my chance. The first thing you notice about Dallas is its airport. It is HUGE ! I can recall about 4-5 terminals. We reached late on Friday night. On Saturday we left to see Dallas.

Dallas and its neighboriing suburban cities of Fort Forth, Plano and Richardson are cities spread our on a vast expanse of land. You will notice that the on ramps and off ramps in Dallas are pretty long. There is no scarcity of space in Texas.

You will notice that everything is big. Highways, ramps, cars, trucks and even food portions. The first thing that struck me about Dallas was the name of teh freeway connecting the city and the airport. It was 'President George Bush Freeway'. It was the Senior President Bush but in Texas the Bush family is very much loved and revered.

Anyway we went to Dallas downtown and to this famous tower. It was unfortunately closed for renovation. That was our first attraction in Dallas which was closed. Later in the day we would understand that many of the attractions were closed.

We wanted to go to a Rodeo show but those didnt start till mid Jan.

We had lunch at this place which has 'Tex Mex'cuisine. Tex mex as a unique style of cuisine which has Mexican food with Texas spices an Chili. It was delicious. Then came th second welcome shock. Food is very cheap in Texas, atleast as compared to California.

Another thing I noticed was that you won't see that many cars in Texas . You will mainly see SUVs and trucks. In Texas, bigger is better. I did see sedans but not many of them.

We passed some pretty large overpasses and freeways. I noticed another interesting thing there. The beams and pillars of these overpasses had the Lone Star, the symbol of Texas.

The symbol was on prominent display at many locations in Texas.

We did a geocache search in a park in Dallas. If you don't know what that is look it up , it sa very interesting game to play, its like a modern treasure hunt, a nice adventure to have.

After seeing some of the attractions in Dallas we called it a night. We had to leave early to Houston the next day.