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Howdy from a dry Dallas! And when I say dry, I mean dry. There's no booze here - aaaaarrrggghhh!!! That's right - the part of Dallas where we're staying - Irving - is an alcohol-free zone. We should've done more research before we came here. Oliver, you would NOT be happy. It's a pretty nice place apart from that though, and we're just about coping. Going to Austin on Tuesday, which is a massive student town full of bars, so we should be able to make up for lost time there. Anyway, enough about alcohol. Yesterday we checked out Dallas, which was pretty cool. It was fairly quiet though and the highlight was seeing where JKF was shot. Sick, but interesting. They've got a museum on the sixth floor of the book depository, where Oswald is meant to have fired the shots from. (I say meant to, cos we've been learning about all of the conspiracy theories - ooh, controversial.) Really interesting and you can actually look down from THE window, but they won't let you take photos - boo! Speaking of photos, I've finally managed to upload loads of pics - three albums, in fact - More Miami, Chicago and Dallas. Check it out. I hope you enjoy them, cos it wasn't easy! Generally, Dallas seems like a cool place, but Irving is proper bible belt territory - hence the lack of booze and LOTS of Churches. Luckily, the hostel is dead nice - it's basically like staying in someone's house. (see pics!) We wanna check out the Dallas Cowboys Stadium and maybe go to Fort Worth, which is a proper cowboy redneck town. Cool! Unfortunately, this will all have to wait until tomorrow as there is no public transport on Sundays. By now, you're getting to see what kind of place this is!! Pretty much just gonna chill in the sun today. In the words of Tony Christie / Peter Kay - 'the day is dawning, on a Texas Sunday morning.' Quite literally!
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