Once again, I am super grateful to have a local guide!
Ms. Cinnamon has lived in Dallas all her life, so she took me on a tour of her city today, from seedy west Dallas to the Turtle Creek district with its huge mansions. There was really too much info for my memory to do justice to it!
Before heading to Dealey Plaza, we went for lunch at EatZi‘s, an upscale European-market type place where you can find just about anything you could want to eat or drink. She chose a few salads and I zeroed in on the sushi! This place was awesome! Tip: try all the samples so that you’ll be a little full and less tempted to try one of everything! 😀
I’ll write about our afternoon at Dealey Plaza in another post. Once I’d had my fill of that, we walked around downtown a little bit and checked out the new Perot Museum of Science of Nature, but we were too close to the end of the day, so we’ll go later this week.
We drove around some more after and finished our day off with dinner at the Highland Park Cafeteria, a Dallas institution serving homestyle cooking. I enjoyed my chicken and sides. The portions were ginormous and I have leftovers for tomorrow!
Dallas doesn’t feel like a giant metropolis. The only city I can think of that comes close to it is Chicago, another city of neighbourhoods with a compact downtown core. Only Dallas is about 1/10th the size! Dallas has a lot of green spaces (that wilt and brown in warm weather), does not allow pandhandlers, and has lots of arts and culture.
I was sad to say goodbye to palm trees in San Antonio, but lo and behold, and to Ms. Cinnamon’s surprise, we saw a few today!
Tomorrow, I will post about Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository.
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- Driving into downtown Dallas, you are greeted by glimmering skyscrapers.
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- The new Perot Museum of Science and Nature.
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- Dallas has a light rail service.
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- In west Dallas heading downtown.
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- It’s hilarious that this gorgeous bridge goes to seedy west Dallas.
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- Dallas has unique skyscrapers. There aren’t two the same.
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- Dallas has some fun street names, like Lover’s Lane.
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- Lunch at EatZi’s; spicy tuna roll. YUM. Very fresh and very tasty!
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- A sneak peek for the next post; this is the grassy knoll.
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- In Dallas, squat red brick buildings survive in the shadow of towering glass skyscrapers.
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- House of the Blues.
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- Approaching the museum of science and nature on foot.
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- What an odd building!
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- Ms. Cinnamon took me to Fountain Place, which is below the pointy building you can see in the first picture of this gallery.
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- The area is so serene.
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- Lots of bubbling fountains.
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- Ms. Cinnamon said not to step here in case the fountains start up again!
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- Rows and rows and rows…
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- … and rows of fountains.
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- And fountains.
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- So pretty!
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- The pattern on this building was interesting.
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- The flying red horses.
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- I like the copy detail on the orange building.
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- The trains pass through downtown.
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- The building visibly flares at the bottom.
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- Laundry chute? Body chute?
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- This was the old courthouse.
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- Highland Park Cafeteria.