November 10, 2008 - Monday - Dallas/Fort Worth
Overcast, but that's OK - it just makes it feel like a Monday.
Kathy had gone online to look at "attractions" around Dallas - so we're off to the Fort Worth Botanical Garden. Just a 20-minute drive in the insane interstate network around DFW and we pulled in (it's like Los Angeles here: you have to *constantly* be aware of which *lane* you're in as lanes are added and go away and are "Exit Only" and you have to enter at the left of 8 lanes and get to the right lane in 400 feet...).
Can't beat the price of the Botanical Garden: free.
But it's November and overcast, so the flowers weren't really colorful. We strolled thru the 109 acres and were kind of disappointed, but then we found the Japanese Garden there. It's $3 each - obviously cheap - so we wandered on in. Again, the overcast day - and the muted colors of November kind of put a damper on it, but it is a HUGE Japanese garden and the Zen of it all began to seep into our psyche's:
Overall, a nice morning. It really didn't take long to soak in the atmosphere and start feeling it:
Smiles and a nice mental "soak" in the peacefulness. Nice.
"Leila" found a nearby Fuddruckers so we both had great Buffalo burgers for lunch.
Then back to the hotel by the airport - to just snuggle in and listen to the massive thunderstorm boom away outside.
Off to Arkansas tomorrow.
8789 Miles total.
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