Dallas is certainly not in the Caribbean, but it was where we were laid over for eight hours en route to Miami. Our flight from Edmonton landed around noon, so basically an afternoon in Dallas was a bonus, courtesy of American Airlines.
Neither Andrea nor I had ever been to Texas before, so we made the most of it, starting with a 45 minutes, $5 round trip ride into Dallas on the DART rail.
Once in the city we got some Texas BBQ right by the DART station, at Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse.
Then we began a walking tour roughly based on a National Geographic walking tour map I found online. We saw the grassy knoll and Dealey Plaza where JFK was shot;
the Old Red Courthouse;
John Neely Bryan's cabin;
the JFK memorial (surprisingly unimpressive);
Reuinion Tower;
Pioneer Plaza;
Pioneer cemetery;
City Hall;
Hotel Adolphus;
and Thanksgiving Square, which has obviously seen better days.
We stopped for coffee in the Magnolia Building, the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi, or something like that.
And we also ran into the remarkable complex of First Baptist Church, which integrated three generations of church buildings in a very attractive way. This was not an attraction on our walking map, but it was maybe the most interesting place we visited nonetheless.
The day after Christmas was probably not the best day to tour Dallas's downtown, because most things were closed and quiet, but we had nearly perfect walking weather, and anyway, it sure beat sitting at DFW airport all day.
You can see all of my Dallas photos here.
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