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I woke up late at Jerry's place... While I
was there I snapped a few pictures of a portion of his roommate's rather
impressive collection of Hot Wheels cars.
We went off for some lunch, and then he had to go off to work, so I decided to hook up with a few other people from LS1.COM in Dallas. I headed off to Plano to meet Jim (TAMUz28), and the plan was to meet up with a few others and go out for an evening of drinking.... So I hit Dallas about 4:30, smack dab in the middle of rush hour - which is actually good, because I want to get an idea of what commuting in this city would be like. The first thing I discovered is that traffic, for the most part, is not as bad as Seattle is during rush hour... But there are times where it's worse. I hit the tollway to head up to Plano... This is a lovely little racket they have going here.... Not only do you have to pay to get on it, you have to pay to get OFF it! I was cracking up listening to a radio station that was promoting square dance lessons. It almost seemed surreal listening to it, you don't hear something like that in Seattle. I got to about Richardson before the traffic got so slow that I wanted to get off and hit side streets... So I took and exit and navigated up towards Plano.... I called Jim and he talked me in to where he was.. Got the chance to check out his 10th Anniversary Firehawk Trans Am. MAN, what a sweet car! Right now it's running open headers and no cats, so its LLLLLOUD!! Sounds awesome, though. I dropped off the Alero at Jim's place, and we went to meet up with the others at a place called Carrabas.... Crazy group of guys, a lot of fun to party with. Wish I remembered everyone's names... I'm terrible with that kind of thing. On the way there, Jim got the chance to show a Mustang GT what was up... smoked him pretty bad. That car sounds evil at full throttle! We stayed there for a few drinks, then it was off to a place called "Cowboys"... it was "college night" there, which meant it was 18 and up. This club used to be a K-mart, so it's gigantic.. There's like 10 bars inside of it, and a huge dance floor. There were tons of women there, but I'd say the vast majority of them were under the drinking age.... Hmmm... a little too young for me. We met up with Eric (MorterForker) and Chris (Knight7) there as well. Jay, one of the guys with our group, made me down a big ass Jack & Coke.. So by the time I left there, I had a pretty good buzz going. It was getting late, and a couple of the guys had to work in the morning... So it was time to go home... Jim was gracious enough to let me crash on his couch... Thanks a ton, man! Everyone in Texas has been so hospitable, it's making my trip all that much more pleasurable... Dunno about tomorrow. I might hang in Dallas for a while, or might just head to Houston in the morning. I'll just have to wait and see what tomorrow brings! <<previous ----- <<schedule>> ----- next->> |
