Busy, busy busy

Is what poor Cora has been lately, but I am just piggy backing on her valid excuse as to why I haven't posted lately.  

I guess I have been kind of busy too.  Cora and I just got back from a wedding in Dallas that was pretty sweet.  On a side note: I just added up all the miles I have traveled in the last week and a half and it totaled something like 6200 miles.  That's a pretty decent chunk of mileage if you consider a third of that was driven.  But I got to see a lot of cool places in that traveling so I'm really not complaining.  

For instance in Dallas Cora and I went to the 6th floor museum at Dealey Plaza, this was one of the most interesting museum's I think I have ever been to.  Thanks to the 9 million times I've watched the movie JFK I was absolutely fascinated the entire time.  It was amazing to walk through and see everything that was going on in Dallas and the country at the time.  Like I had no idea two weeks prior that Adlai Stevenson had been in Dallas and someone had basically tried to knock him down on a campaign stop.  If someone from Dallas is going to try to knock down your ambassador to the U.N. why would you visit there as a sitting president? Isn't that what Vice Presidents are for??  I came away from the whole thing with at least one good conclusion. I have a harder time now buying any conspiracy theories about the JFK assignation.  The whole area was just way too small for all those covert things that people have implied.  I can't imagine a second, third and so on gun men and no one noticing.  In the movies you think the whole area is this big expansive space that people could have got lost in or blended into.  I always kind of had doubt that if Lee Harvey Oswald was the dolt that people made him out to be then how could he hit a moving motorcade at such a far distance ... but I come to find out that really wasn't a far distance.  I'm not a marksmen or anything, but how close it was I would think that he could have just lucked into it.  But who knows, it was really interesting to look around and be in such a historic place.  The whole museum was kind of a downer though, JFK kind of seemed like a cool dude.  Here are some pictures of the area.

Changing subjects: I also found the whole "metro-plex" area amazing.  It was completely different than I think any city or metropolitan area that I have ever been in.  I expected the whole place to kind of reek (in the nicest way possible) of that kind of Dallas/Texas bravado that you get through the media.  But that wasn't the case at all, the place is absolutely massive and it seemed like everywhere was too busy to really care about all that.  It was kind of like Atlanta with more land and possibly on HGH.  

It was also SO HOT, it allowed me to coin a new phrase.  On Sunday I got what I am going to call a "Texas sunburn".  It's just like a regular sunburn but you don't notice it because its so insanely hot outside that it feels normal, but once you get in the air conditioning you cry like a little girl.  

Lastly, I really meant to post remainders of my series of pictures from the collection "Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma at 70 MPH", but google was fighting me and I got bored.  So instead I just uploaded them all to here, for anyone who wants to go look.