Blogs from Dallas, Texas, United States, North America - page 15

Im way behind on these blogs...sorry. 11/26/2006 4:24 PM Finally made it to the club in Dallas after working our way through a couple of road closed detours. The show went well after ironing out some sound issues. There were only two bands on the bill. Everyone knew the promoter from past tours so things went smoothly. We had a moderate crowd and decent merch sales. The owner of the club was from Australia and I spent some time talking to her about platypus after she heckled Martin about Australia beating England in cricket last year. I think the most exciting thing about the show was the smoke machine setting off the fire alarm in the club about a quarter of the way through Attrition’s set. Three fire trucks and the fire chief pulled up and ... read more

Yeasterday we did a visit to Southfork Ranch in Texas which is about 30 mins by car from downtown Dallas. Southfork is the ranch where the tv-series Dallas was shot and where the Ewing family was living in the tv-series, although only the exterior parts were filmed there, the interior shots were recorded in a studio in Los Angeles. The house looked a lot smaller in reality than on TV (not that I used to follow Dallas but I watched it occasionally when I was a child). The surroundings are very beautiful though and the weather was gorgeous, sunny, blue skies and around 28 degrees. They also had a Dallas museum at the ranch with some of the original furniture and an exhibitions about the characters and the actors of Dallas. As a little surprise it ... read more

So have now made it to Dallas...an interesting place! To start of its about 90 degrees, abit of a change from Alaska! We venured into the main part of the city yesterday and managed to see about 20 people! Turns out the Texas State Fair has just started and all residence of Dallas have headed to it!! It has some really great sculptures around the city including 40 steel cattle stampeding down a hill! We can also see the builidng where JFK was shot from our hotel and was given a little tour around the 'famous' spots! It is quite interesting but also quite sad! There also appears to be a lot more beggars here then we have incountered in other US cities and they seen to have taken a shine to Neil. For some reason ... read more

Well Rob and I are frantically getting ready for the big trip. Co-workers and being briefed, contact numbers being written down and time zone calculations are being made. We leave Sunday from Dallas at 7:55am for LA. Our Auckland flight is not until 9:40PM so we have the day to bum around the City. Stay tuned for great photos and stories to match!!!... read more

Well, I'm back in Texas after 4 weeks, I think it was, travelling!!! And I'm exhausted and I still have another 3 weeks till I'm back on English soil!!! It was an incredible journey. Driving from Dallas to San Diego, it has to be said the best part was the change of scenery and how quickly it changed!!!! San Diego was awesome, very chilled out and onto Los Angeles (City of Angels... maybe one day!). Travelling up on the Greyhound was fine and not as hair raising as people make it out to be!!!! Travelling with the poorest of poor but we're all heading in the same direction! So Los Angeles... what a hole!!!!! Oh my goodness... although I still love it..... had some amazing experiences and blessings.... then onto Sacramento to see some mates..again a ... read more

Sooooo right now I'm still in the (relatively) tame locale of Dallas, Texas, but I am doing so much reading on Ghana and Africa and a variety of potential research topics that I feel like I am already in the "field," that is, GHANA!! I am going to be arriving in Accra, the capital of Ghana, on September 1, 2006. Even after all the reading and websearching I have done, I still don't know what to expect... which is thrilling. I will be there for 3 and a half months through the School for International Training (SIT). From what I know about the program we will just be immersed in to the Ghanaian culture, starting with a homestay about a week after we arrive. Like the dork I am, I have already started practicing the language. ... read more

Hello Everybody, I promised that I would put together a travel blog to ensure that my incredible trip that I am about to embark on is captured and seen by friends and family. So be sure to check back here on a regular basis for updates. I am currently in Dallas, TX, not a place that I ever thought that I would find myself in. But I am out here spending time with with my girlfriend Felicia, who I get to see very little of due to geographical constraints. But I really like the city ... a look of very beautiful people and lots and lots of money every where you look ... its surreal sometimes ... As you all know by now, I quit my job at Accu-Tech Corporation after working there for nearly 4 ... read more