Observations on Dallas

I just got back from a short trip to Dallas. It’s been a while since I’ve been to Texas, and there were a few things that kind of jumped out at me.

The men are bigger than normal and I don’t just mean fat, although there is a lot of that. The women, when younger, tend more toward the pretty end of the spectrum, but when they get older, then compensate for their age with boob-jobs, tons of makeup and really big hair that would be the envy of any 80’s heavy metal band.

I probably made more U-turns in Dallas in four days than I will probably make in the rest of the year. Dallas is full of highways and all of them have access roads that run alongside. To navigate, you have to go past your destination in the other direction, get off on the access road and do a U-turn to get to where you want to go. If you undershoot your destination, it means you have to do three U-turns to get there. Similarly, if your destination is on the right-side of the road, you have to get off before it. If you overshoot you have to do two U-turns to get back to it.

People eat a lot of meat (not really a big surprise I suppose). I’m not sure that there’s such a thing as protein toxicity poisoning, but if there is, I suspect I came dangerously close to getting it.

Fogo de Chao is really good, but every time I eat there, I am guaranteed a night of indigestion and waking up every ten minutes as my stomach does another somersault.

Despite its southern location, Dallas is not that warm in the winter. It was hovering around freezing the entire time. That being said, it jumped up to 15C the day after I left. Bad timing.

Despite the fact that it would have been almost an hour drive in both directions, I should have gone to Angelo’s instead of settling for lesser barbecue.

Since I’m planning on doing away with my travel blog, I’m going to repost my Dallas entry here. See below.