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My cousin Anthony is getting married on the 12th, and my father and I, as well as my aunt and uncle (my cousin's parents) are traveling down to the Lone Star State Monday, for a week of. . .well, I'm not sure, really.
I don't think we have any Flare D/FW Metroplexians, but I know we have at least one Texan. So, like, what's the deal? I think we're taking the (long) drive to Austin for a day or two as well. One week before South by Southwest, I tragically note.
Keep in mind that all my travels will be with a family that I am not, shall we say, a representative sample of.
There may be pictures afterwards, and there will probably be some sort of sarcastic and poorly formatted travel diary.
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Hmmm..you're not exactly ariving at a nice time of year in dallas- you'll find a severe lack of color if the weather's bad (or if it's still really cold there) the sky and land will be a uiform gray and the buildings mostly brick or (downtown) unpainted concrete and steel.
I'm not a big fan of Dallas in winter.
I've heard there's some nightlife to be had, but like you, my visits there were always of a family-oriented (read: inescapable) nature.
This might help, though.... this looks infinately more promising.
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Yep, Dallas winters run slowly, like molasses in February. *spit* *ploink*
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quote:- you'll find a severe lack of color if the weather's bad (or if it's still really cold there) the sky and land will be a uiform gray and the buildings mostly brick or (downtown) unpainted concrete and steel.
As opposed to spring Dallas, when the grazing buildings shed their brick wintercoat and grow a nice birch and alabaster thatchwork, with spots of redwood and bakelite fittings. Shindigs and cheerleaders for everyone.
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"...a family that I am not, shall we say, a representative sample of."
I will probably regret this, but: are there any families out there that you are a representative sample of?
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Ryan McReynolds was our Metroplex poster. I've never spent any appreciable time in Dallas or Austin, but I do have friends that have travelled there on occassion. I'll ask them and get back to you.
Off the top of my head, I know that Dallas has a museum of arts and a museum or natural history. I've heard both of them are pretty good. There's the Dallas Symphony, but I don't know if their season has started, what they're performing, or how ridiculously expensive it is. Downtown Dallas has undergone a revitalization, so it may be worth it to wonder around there for a couple hours popping into shops and restaurants. Also, maybe you can catch a tour of all the spots in Dallas they filmed Walker, Texas Ranger. The Mavericks are playing, but, again, I don't know their schedule or how ridiculously expensive a game would be. The area where JFK was assassinated is still there and undergoing a project to restore it to it's 1963 appearance.
Austin is a college town, so there's a lot of stuff geared towards students. In particular, Sixth Street and Guadalupe Street near UT are hotspots for bars, restaurants, and live music. Austin is supposedly famous for its music, but I don't know of any venues off-hand. The Texas Legislature is in session, so it might be interesting (and humorous, according to Molly Ivins) to take a tour of the capitol building and see part of a session. If you pop over to UT, the tower has tours, so you can go up to the observation deck and see where Charles Whitman went crazy with deer rifles thirty years ago. Somewhere around there is a bridge that's a popular spot for watching bats. Also, on the north side is the Chuy's Tex-Mex restaurant that is famous for being the scene where the Bush daughters were busted for underage drinking and using fake IDs.
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"...a family that I am not, shall we say, a representative sample of."
I will probably regret this, but: are there any families out there that you are a representative sample of?
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quote:Originally posted by Nim': As opposed to spring Dallas, when the grazing buildings shed their brick wintercoat and grow a nice birch and alabaster thatchwork, with spots of redwood and bakelite fittings. Shindigs and cheerleaders for everyone.
Well, I got dragged to some sprawling gardens last time I was there (six years ago?) and they were bueatiful. You'll notice that every woman over 22 in the dallas/Ft. Worth metropolitan area drives an SUV and has a baby.
That's not an exageration either: there may be some local statuate I'm unaware of in play...
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I was thinking more like Pugsley (If Mike was the poser, I'd have said Wednsday, but that would be mean, and I'm a nice person ...in some alternate dimension).
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Interesting, though I'm hoping to hit stores a bit more. . . off the beaten path. I mean, I can (and often do) hit Best Buy on my way home from work. Though I may have to stop by, just for the eerie frisson of "Hey, are you related to this guy I know by an alias at a Star Trek message board?"
I would sure like to load up on the sorts of CDs and books one imagines would be available in a hip college town. (All my experience is with unhip college towns.)
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Mabye FG wants you in the family and is playing matchmaker.
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