OK, I am now in Dallas!
02-24-2008 | 05:26 PM
#31
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Hey Tim,
Best wishes for your continued success...this time in Texas. I drove through Charlotte on Friday. Didn't realize you were in Dallas already. Was thinking about checking to see if you were on-line but it was only 4 hours into our trip home and had to make some time. Glad to hear your trip went well. Having lived in Texas in the early 80's and then visiting a few times since be sure to take a trip to San Antonio when your wife joins you there. The riverwalk is one of the nicest places in all of Texas. Good luck,
Andy T
Best wishes for your continued success...this time in Texas. I drove through Charlotte on Friday. Didn't realize you were in Dallas already. Was thinking about checking to see if you were on-line but it was only 4 hours into our trip home and had to make some time. Glad to hear your trip went well. Having lived in Texas in the early 80's and then visiting a few times since be sure to take a trip to San Antonio when your wife joins you there. The riverwalk is one of the nicest places in all of Texas. Good luck,
Andy T
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02-24-2008 | 05:54 PM
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austin is definitely in the lead for warm winters, and one of my good friends from back home owns a very nice nightclub there as well. Only thing that worries me is the summers, my blood's too thick for all those 100+ degree days.
Just do your exercizing before 10a or after 8p - really not that bad, and I don't like the heat!
I'd live in LA or San Diego near full time if it weren't for the time zone and the taxes, NY full time if I hadn't been there since 1980 and the weather wasn't so terrible (and the taxes).
Not to mention cost of living and the people!!! (sorry anyone from Cali.)
Texas seems ideal being in the middle physically (with cheap, shorter flights to either coast). Is there anyplace in Texas that's cosmopolitan and has good weather for 9+ months?
Just do your exercizing before 10a or after 8p - really not that bad, and I don't like the heat!
I'd live in LA or San Diego near full time if it weren't for the time zone and the taxes, NY full time if I hadn't been there since 1980 and the weather wasn't so terrible (and the taxes).
Not to mention cost of living and the people!!! (sorry anyone from Cali.)
Texas seems ideal being in the middle physically (with cheap, shorter flights to either coast). Is there anyplace in Texas that's cosmopolitan and has good weather for 9+ months?
02-24-2008 | 08:13 PM
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On another note, notice that my S4 is headed out. It's a long story, but I've ordered a new Audi TT Roadster to replace it. The S4 doesn't even have as many miles as the Porsche does!
02-24-2008 | 08:26 PM
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You want great BBQ, go to Memphis - best I've ever had! Never been to Texas in my life, so I wouldn't know.
On another note, notice that my S4 is headed out. It's a long story, but I've ordered a new Audi TT Roadster to replace it. The S4 doesn't even have as many miles as the Porsche does!
On another note, notice that my S4 is headed out. It's a long story, but I've ordered a new Audi TT Roadster to replace it. The S4 doesn't even have as many miles as the Porsche does!
02-25-2008 | 01:05 AM
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Hey Tim,
Best wishes for your continued success...this time in Texas. I drove through Charlotte on Friday. Didn't realize you were in Dallas already. Was thinking about checking to see if you were on-line but it was only 4 hours into our trip home and had to make some time. Glad to hear your trip went well. Having lived in Texas in the early 80's and then visiting a few times since be sure to take a trip to San Antonio when your wife joins you there. The riverwalk is one of the nicest places in all of Texas. Good luck,
Andy T
Best wishes for your continued success...this time in Texas. I drove through Charlotte on Friday. Didn't realize you were in Dallas already. Was thinking about checking to see if you were on-line but it was only 4 hours into our trip home and had to make some time. Glad to hear your trip went well. Having lived in Texas in the early 80's and then visiting a few times since be sure to take a trip to San Antonio when your wife joins you there. The riverwalk is one of the nicest places in all of Texas. Good luck,
Andy T
Thanks for the best wishes.
Yes, the Riverwalk is very nice. We lived in San Antonio for over 25 years so we are very familiar with teh city. My wife and I both have family in SA.
02-25-2008 | 05:41 AM
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Tim you (as always) disappointed me!......NO speeding tickets???? WTF....cruise control??? And making fun of my tip eh! Well at least I got speeding tickets! LOL
Anyways...have a great time in Dallas...get a cowboy hat and a GUN (get a horse once you lease is up) and post images of your new home (I mean ofcourse the part where you P is parked)
Anyways...have a great time in Dallas...get a cowboy hat and a GUN (get a horse once you lease is up) and post images of your new home (I mean ofcourse the part where you P is parked)
02-25-2008 | 05:59 PM
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Welcome to Dallas...what general area are you in? Uptown in hard to beat but we are just north of there in an older part of town called the Park Cities. Lot's of older homes getting torn down at a frantic pace. There are also some VERY cool high rises like The W, Ritz Carlton, etc. Traffic can be horrendous, depending on which direction you are going at what time of day, in particular in/out of the outlying suburbs. You've noticed our aggressive drivers, eh? I have friends come here from LA and say WE scare THEM. Someone asked about cosmopolitan cities in Texas...Dallas is really working on it with more "in town", urban development and the food scene has taken off in the last 10-15 years, not that it was ever bad.
Also, you'll see a lot fewer cowboy hats that many would expect...usually worn by tourists! :-)).
Also, you'll see a lot fewer cowboy hats that many would expect...usually worn by tourists! :-)).
02-25-2008 | 06:44 PM
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Cowboy hats!! HA!! I've got some property in Aubrey NW of Dallas about 45 miles and whats always funny to me is when I'm out there how drastically different demographics are compared to being "in the loop". I agree Dallas has really stepped up urban development and has had a recent influx of more "cosmo" oriented business
02-25-2008 | 07:00 PM
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Not a whole of of people in Dallas actually FROM Dallas, or Texas for that matter...not to imply anything wrong with "locals"...I married one of the few local Dallas girls I even know. Although she is an Aggie, so we are working through that!
02-25-2008 | 07:05 PM
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02-25-2008 | 07:17 PM
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Welcome (back) to Texas. As we in Austin are fond of saying, "we've got room enough for just about everybody." Friendliest place I've lived. Heck, my wife even loves it, and she's a born-and-bred New Yorker.
As for barbeque...generalizing about Texas barbeque is, well, just too danged general. We choose a place to go based on what we want that meal because there are so many different places, styles, specialties, and so forth. I usually look for the Shiner Bock sign out front.
As for barbeque...generalizing about Texas barbeque is, well, just too danged general. We choose a place to go based on what we want that meal because there are so many different places, styles, specialties, and so forth. I usually look for the Shiner Bock sign out front.
