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Road to Houston – 2.7.2012 – USA Travel Journal

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Well today was not a great day. We spent nearly 3 hours driving around the twist and turns of the Dallas highways, trying to find a particular shop I had seen yesterday. It was an unclaimed baggage place. Do you think we could find it…not a chance. Kind of wish we had gone there on the way home yesterday, even if it was just to get an address.

Which side of the road do I drive on??

Well I certainly heard about not being able to find it. Dave made sure of it. In the end we just decided to cut our losses and tackle the highways and just head south to Houston. Dave decided that he had had enough and gave the keys to me and told me good luck with it. So I took over for about 1.5 hours. Mind you I let him know how it felt to sit in the passenger seat.

The tension was raised a few notches and a few words were mutted but eventually we got it sorted and managed to get out of the rat race and back to some sanity. This road trip is certainly testing our sanity, but I wouldn’t have it any other way…it just makes our love for each other stronger and lets just say the making up is pretty good too!!

 

Well I am going to try and watch a little TV while I can get the chance…Dave normally has the remote all tied up!!!

J

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Dallas 1.7.2012 – USA Travel Journal

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Well today we stayed in Dallas for another night. I really wanted to have a break from driving and take a look around.

       

Dave and I headed out to the Fort Worth Stockyards. We wanted to get that real cowboy feel of Texas. They herd the longhorn cows down the street. You can see a wild west show and shop and eat to your hearts content. We got there in time to see the cows go down the street. Well here I was expecting to see the cowboys herding cattle , cracking whips and cattle running everywhere. Umm a little news flash for me. The tamest cows I had ever seen. They just mosed on down the road like they had all day. I think a snail would of moved faster. The cowboys didn’t even get the horse to a trot.

We then came across cows with saddles, now I truely think I have seen everything. You could sit on the cow and take a pic. Cows and saddles….mmm something a little wrong here I think??

Dave and I then decided to go and see the Wild West show. Whip cracking, rope tricks, trick riding & a singing cowboy. This should be great.  Well we got inside and lets just say Dave and I spent the next 45 mins or so, looking at each other and thinking this would have to be the worse B grade acting we have ever seen. While some of the tricks were cool, the weren’t anything spectacular. As for the singing cowboy….I think he should stick to his day job. The animals were the stars of the show. I would like to know who taught them how to act, they should give the humans lessons. We were hoping to win a pair of cowboy boots, but our number wasn’t the one. Would of made it worth while to endure the show.

Anyway Dave and I had a great day and finished it off by having dinner at one of the steak houses. The food certainly wasn’t B grade. It was A+.

Now its time to veg out and plan for the next stop.

J

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