Toomers do Dallas

Day 8 we headed back to Denver Airport for our flight to Dallas. Mandy had regained some urban legends on the way to drop us off including the airport is thought to be cursed or haunted and the giant bucking horse that "welcomes" you is rather creepy with its glowing red eyes and it fell on the artist who created him and killed him.
We had also forgotten the underground train that ferries you between terminals has a cowboy greeting you to each terminal and plays a little western ditty each time you approach a stop!
We have also observed since Mandy pointed it out is that almost everything had a drive thru....even Stabucks and Krispy Creme donuts have drive thru's at most stores!
After being delayed on the tarmac for 40 mins because of and air conditioning problem we finally arrived in Dallas. On being told there is no transport other than taxi from the airport and a $50 taxi ride later we got to the apartment. Our day was about to get even worse....I had booked through the normal website but it was a corporate apartment and there was no front desk, just a sales office. On trying to reach the owner with no response and not being able to get through to booking.com (after 2 hours) I booked another hotel for the night. I tried Trivago using the map view to find something close and still in the city. Once that was all booked I went to order an Uber and on the Uber app the ride was 30 mins away. After looking up the address the new hotel was miles out of the city and the booking made was non refundable. After time on the phone trying to cancel that one they told us we had to wait 48 hours to know whether it would be refunded.
In the end we decided to just go ahead and make our way to the hotel.....which was pretty basic compared with the lovely apartment we had booked. Thankfully there were loads of eating places around to grab dinner as it was pretty late by the time we managed to get settled.
After we had gone to bed the Police came hunting for someone....the walls at the new accommodation were paper thin and they were knocking on someone's door trying to seek them out.
Day 9 started with a great sleep in....much needed after the previous travel day. We started out by finding our way into town on the local bus and train. Pretty sure we were the only white people on both! We headed out to Bishop Arts District to Lockharts Smokehouse. I had done some research before heading over and this was meant to be one of the best  BBQs in Dallas. It didn't disappoint! We got some brisket, ribs and sausage with coleslaw and potato salad. Some of it was pretty spicy but the meat was beautiful, full of smokey flavour and cooked for a long time.
After wandering the cute shops in Bishop we grabbed a bus back to Downtown Dallas to go to the Sixth floor museum, which is dedicated to JKF and his assassination. We hadn't realised the museum is actually the floor Harvey Lee Oswald used to shoot him from! They have cordoned off the window he shot him from and that forms part of the museum so you get a good view of where it all happened on the street. It was super interesting Nd tied in well to the mob museum we did in Vegas with the conspiracy around Jack Ruby's involvement. We finished off with a wander through Wild Bill's which is a western outfitter with walls and walls of cowboy boots at 1k a pop and cowboy hats in every color and style you could imagine!
After heading back to the hotel we had to catch a bit of the show the storm was putting on. Thunderstorms and heavy rain across the drought ridden state with flash flood warnings for the area we are supposed to be driving through tomorrow 🙄. The bizarre weather seems to be following us so hopefully tomorrow clears up a bit for our roadtrip! We have no accommodation booked for tomorrow night as we are not sure where we are stopping on the way to Memphis.

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