Since last winter went so swimmingly, let's try it again! TFS has very graciously opened her home in the west San Fernando Valley to me again. This time her daughter AS (and dog and cat) are there too. Two women + two dogs + two cats = not my usual solitary winter again. Huzzah! Place name links like Los Angeles, CA go to Wikipedia. Place name links like Los Angeles use a local tourism or government website.
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Dallas Views |
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Time to catch up on what's been going on over the last month. One, I've been trying to catch up on some things we did in LA, namely a trip to The Getty Villa, which turned out to be quite a lot of work, or at least I spent a lot of time on it. Two, I've been checking out some of the driving ranges around, to hopefully improve my golf swing, with varying degrees of success. Three, we've been seeing some local sights, as you may surmise from the list of new entries Not Ready Yet, above. I'm currently plowing through the pics I've taken that aren't posted yet, numbering over 1200 now. Including this post, where I've collected various pics of the area to give you an idea of what the place looks like.
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Approaching Dallas, TX on our first day, stuck in traffic. |
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Gilley's Dallas, a block north of our hotel. |
The view from the roof of our hotel, looking north.
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There's still a lot of undeveloped land south of downtown Dallas. The area is long-past its heyday as a transportation and warehouse sector, and has been largely ignored, even avoided, by Dallas residents and city officials. |
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The Sears Roebuck & Co. Catalogue Merchandise Center was one of the first warehouse conversions, a decade ago. Since then there has been relatively little development, save for our hotel and a couple restaurants.
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| Texans like barbecue. Texans also like guns. Sometimes they combine the two. The one to the right was at Trader's Village Flea Market in Grand Prairie, just west of Dallas. $375 for this ribs-burner.
No idea how much the fancier one in front of Gilley's was. |
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| The Deep Ellum Arts Festival was a free 3-day art and music festival in the Deep Ellum neighbourhood of Dallas. |
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Night view of downtown Dallas looking south from the top of the W hotel in northwest downtown.
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From TFS, in the penthouse of the W Dallas - Victory Hotel where the above panorama was taken. We were on a set of the production that TFS was in town to do. A very stylish bar across from the American Airlines Center that failed and between owners was rented out. The spider-y looking thing was one of a number of sculptures used as set-dressing, made out of disembodied and rearranged pairs of scissors by a local artist |
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From TFS. She had to get her sushi on - withdrawal symptoms absent from LA life. Dallas has sushi; fishes are only 4 hours away. Somewhere in the northeast of the city, dunno, we just drive and Yelp. Tasty.
She still has pics I have to get of me countering this with a BFT - Big Freakin' Taco - from a Taco Bueno in Plano, TX . | |
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