Today I awoke to a foggy dallas, the skyscrapers cut in half by the swirling mist. Although the temperature has dropped, it's still warmer than telford, and there are still no chavs in sight. As it's Monday, the city has come back to life, yet even with a limited mass transit system, and 99% of workers commuting, there are no nose to tail traffic jams. I think this is due to having high capacity roads, lots of them, people obeying traffic laws and the complete lack of roundabouts. Well that's my opinion anyway.
As the weather is poor today, we dedcided to travel to one of Dallas's many out of town malls using the new electric tram system. It's clean, efficient, with covered stations playing classical music, which seems to annoy most of the low income/unemployed black and hispanic travellers whom seem to make up 90% of all customers. Unlike the UK, the public transport system, this embraces new technology (lpg powered buses) and is subsidised greatly by the government. I suppose you'd have to when petrol is $3.00 a gallon (less than 40p a litre)!
Anyway the mall was pretty crap, although it was easily twice the size of the bullring and it had an apple store. We spent the rest of the afternoon looking around Dallas exploring the cultural district and looking around, before travelling uptown to have a walk about and find a bar serving the largest plate of nachos you have ever seen (there must have been half a pound of cheese on the plate!), All washed down with several beers.
Tomorrow we move to Fort Worth... cow town
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