In Dallas, Texas

Sitting here in Dallas Texas taking a break from watching Long Way Round. It’s a documentary Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman made several years ago in which they set off on motorcycles to travel around the world.

I don’t own very many dvds, my phone plan doesn’t give me enough data to watch movies and when you’re traveling it’s not easy to find a wi-fi connection. I’ve learned when you do find a wi-fi connection they usually aren’t very reliable. They tend to be slow and drop your connection a lot which makes them ok for checking email, the news or light web surfing, but not that great if you are trying to watch a movie or videos.

A lack of an internet connection while on the road is the main reason I haven’t been updating my blog to much since I started traveling. I finally got Word on my laptop so I can write my blogs on it and then upload them when I get home or find a decent wifi connection.

It’s extremely hot right now in Dallas, my phone says 93F. I caught part of the news on tv earlier today when it was hotter and they said it felt like 104F. Last week I was up in Minnesota and it was in the 60s, that was great! Even if it was a little rainy, I’d prefer that over this hot weather!

Started my Christmas shopping today, bought my niece a gift on Amazon. About all I do on my phone is check email, check Amazon and Facebook. I might occasionally upload a photo to Flickr and Facebook, but not very many as that eats up a lot of data.

Last week was my nephews Birthday. I took him to see the new Tarzan movie which was pretty good. I thought it would be better though. It was one of those movies where they show the best parts in the preview and lead you to think there is more to it than what there is. They could have cleaned the movie up just a little and made it more kid friendly and it really wouldn’t have had a huge impact on the film and brought in a much larger audience.

Also for my nephew’s birthday I got him a cool birthday gift bag, a toy snake which was about a 12 inches long and supposed to grow 600% when you put it in water, a package of rattle snake eggs and a car with an astronaut cat on it. Those were more just gag gifts, his main gift was a samurai sword themed to be a zombie killer. It had a biohazard emblem, green zombie blood on the blade and just overall pretty cool looking. He couldn’t believe I got him a sword, he said he would have been less surprised if I bought him a car. Which I would have bought him a car, but there is that whole being poor thing.

I’ve been to Dallas several times the last few weeks. I’m not a fan of the traffic and there is lots of construction. I don’t like driving in the cities, people drive like jerks. City life just isn’t for me!