Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Posted by: Zach
We stayed in Dallas, Texas two nights ago, which was pretty cool. Nice state you have there, David. And yesterday morning we woke up and headed over to the Sixth Floor Museum, the museum about the JFK assassination. It's actually on the sixth floor of the infamous Texas School Book Depository where Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly sniped the presidential motorcade in 1963. Really fascinating stuff in there. I can totally see how people get obsessed with the whole mess.
While Jenny was looking at the exhibit featuring all of the cameras that were used to take the famous pictures we've all seen a zillion times, some creepy dude came up behind her and asked in an equally creepy voice, "So, do you like cameras?!?" "What?", she asked. So he asked her again, in a much louder voice, "Soooooo... DO YOU LIKE CAMERAS?!?". "Not really", she replied. "I'm just checking out the exhibit." Texans are smarmy.
After we left the museum, we headed east to none other than David Dewese's home town of Mesquite. It's about twenty minutes outside of Dallas, like its own little Texan Bellevue, but with more bar-b-que places and a high school with a mascot called a "skeeter". Yes, they're the "Mesquite Skeeters". Priceless.
I had the chance to eat at Mesquite Bar-B-Que, and eat I did! I had a sandwich called "The Manhandler", which is 1/3 pound of pork and sausage on two thick slices of grilled Texas toast. It was excellent. To blend in with the locals, I decided to eat outside in one of the little school desk-looking things they had out there. There was no one out there right then, but I was sure this was the fast track to honing my Mesquite style. While I was chowing down, an employee whose shift had just ended came outside and plopped down next to me, declaring that he was "free at last". He was nice enough to let me know that the whole time he had worked there no one had ever eaten outside in front of the restaurant like me. I was trying to blend in, but it backfired. I hate Texas.
Since we were sooooo over Texas, we headed for Arkansas on our way to Memphis. The plan was to get just past Little Rock and crash for the night. About an hour into our trip we hit heavy rain that didn't stop or let up for hours. This was definitely the hardest rain I've ever driven in, and Jenny was a bit freaked out for much of the drive. But we made it to Little Rock, got a hotel room, saw that there was dirt on the floor and urine on the toilet seat, got our money back, found another hotel, got a room without urine, and went to sleep. Why are you even reading this? It's really just waste of your time, it seems. I'll wrap this up.
Today we got a really nice hotel room in Memphis. This place it awesome! They have and indoor pool and hot tub, and there's a hot tub right in our room. I stayed in the hot tub too long and got a little sick to my stomach.
We found a stellar restaurant called "Jasmine's". Jenny can tell you more about it, but I'll comment on the dessert. We had fried bananas! They were sort of breaded in this coconut stuff and drizzled with honey. Mmm, mmm, good.
Tomorrow we're checking out Graceland and then heading home to Nashville, so get ready for our return. A red carpet will be just fine.
Miles Driven: 5460
Comments:
Brian said...
Hope you're not dead.
Brian said...
Mmm, pork....