Sitting planning a holiday......

[PeteB]

The Missus and I are considering a fly drive based out of Dallas next March. Anything recommended to do and visit?

 

On another note, I've looked at various food menus and the average meal looks like unhealthy stodge - is this pretty state wide or just that which I have viewed?

[GarethM]

Grassy knoll and a book repository are all that comes to mind. Maybe that Gas Monkey Garage ?

Edited December 24, 2023 by GarethM

[Stere]

Bet theres some decent tex mex food etc.

 

 

 

[AHPP]

Go line dancing. 

[trigger_andy]

The Alamo in San Antonio. 

Find a real Steak house. For a min-budget range try Salt Grass, they're based out of Houston but have restaurants all over now I think?

For Sports Stores that cater to every conceivable sport and camping/survival equipment I like Gander Mountain and REI. 

Galveston is meant to be a really good place to visit, a lot people from Houston travel down for a short vacation. 

The Jonson Space Centre in Houston is a must. The tour is great as is sitting in the Press Room over looking the room where 'Houston, we have a problem' was uttered and of course landed Man on the moon. Its been restored back to how it would have looked in 1969. Walking along side a Saturn V was awe inspiring. 

Read the book 'The Son' by Philip Mayer and be transported back to the time of the Frontiersmen (all the way to the present day) it inspires me to want to tour Texas properly. Or be lazy and watch the two season show on ABC. 

There is a lot of time capsule parts of Texas Id like to see. I really enjoyed visiting Old Spring, just outside Houston. There's some great historic bars etc. 

 

I am also planning on taking my family over to Texas for either a road trip or an RV trip, maybe in a few years when the little ones are a bit older.

 

salt+grass - Recherche Google

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[manco]

eat roadkill

and decorate your car with slogans piss off the locals

then run away and put a cow on your roof

 

perhaps consider somewhere more appealing than dallas, central africa or the middle east?

[Steve Bullman]

Food in America is terrible. Probably your best bet for a healthy meal will be finding a steakhouse that has a good salad bar.

 

And if you try their bacon while you’re there and like it then we can’t be friends anymore 

[Haironyourchest]

Do some redneck stuff - buy MAGA hats, got to a shooting range, duel-wield .44 magnums revolvers. Drink Coors at a biker bar in the desert at sundown. Attend a monster truck jamboree. If you can, go to a mud-fest (although I think that's more a Louisiana thing, Texas is probably too dry).. as for food, eat in the Black neighborhoods. Fried chicken, grits and ocra (don't know what it is but it's fierce popular).

 

 

[Stere]

I tried growing okra in the garden didn't suceed

 

Fancied it for adding too gumbo:

 

Gumbo - Wikipedia

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

[sime42]

You can get Okra it any Asian shop, or even general greengrocers and supermarkets occasionally. Also called Ladies Fingers.