Dallas

After a good nights sleep and a fantastic breakfast spread laid on by Susan, we said our goodbyes to Indy and Misty and sped into Dallas for another round of sight-seeing. We had slept later than planned due to a mix-up in communications with the folks and our mums desire to watch Andy Murray in the final of Wimbledon, as we needed to SKYPE them when it would interfere least with play. That left us with only a few hours to see what there was in Dallas, and thankfully Susan was happy to ferry us around in the car so we could see as much as we could with our limited time.

Ride 'em cowboy!

The most poignant moment was when we arrived at the site where JFK was assassinated. The Texas Book Depository is now a museum, and a number of small monuments were around the place in his honour. Quite oddly, there was a black and yellow banner stating “Grassy Knoll” where apparently the second gunman was hidden. Slightly down the road was the JFK Memorial, a large concrete cube-like structure where people can walk inside and reflect on their thoughts. At this point the temperature was beginning to rise and we were very glad to get back into the air-conditioned car. After touring the outlying suburbs of Dallas and seeing the more affluent (and the more seedy) areas we also managed to go through a drive-thru farmers market. Only in America! Later in the day we headed to a great little eatery called Empanadas where we picked up some fantastic little savoury pasty-type bites, originating from Argentina. As we were pushed for time we had to eat them in the Greyhound terminal after saying our goodbye and heart-felt thanks to Susan, and try to dodge the many crickets that seemed to continuously inhabit the station in Dallas. It’s not the best arrival into a city you will ever have. Sadly, our plans for seeing Dallas meant that we would have to leave from Dallas Greyhound rather than Fort Worth, as the newly-built Fort Worth terminal was a joy to behold.

The Grassy Knoll is round here somewhere...

And that was our short-but-sweet tour of the Dallas/Fort Worth area, and it was definitely well worth the visit, but we were now waiting for our next carriage to head into New Mexico and all the way through to Albuquerque.