Southern Swing Day 4

Started the morning with a not-all-that-great complementary motel breakfast before I hit the road on my way south , through Norman, and back into Texas. As I got into the Metroplex, I headed toward the east side of Dallas. I had quite a bit of time before my flight left, so I decided that I might as well check out at least one place on my trip for more than a few hours.

I was trying to find a light-rail station without knowing exactly where they were. As it happened, I stumbled on one pretty much right away. I hopped on a Red line train and took it into downtown Dallas. I then hopped a Blue line train back to Cityplace, which is an interesting underground station, then caught the next Red line back to where I was parked. The light rail is a little different than MAX in some ways but not so much that it presented any difficulties.

I then made my way across northern Dallas into Irving, where I found the National Scouting Museum. I wandered about the museum for a while (did very well at the virtual shooting gallery). It was interesting, not quite what I expected, but not in a bad way.

Soon I was back on my way to DFW, which with the directions given me by the museum staff was less than 10 minutes away. I am usually a little conservative on airport arrival times, so I had a few hours to kill, but otherwise the rest of the trip was uneventful.

September 07, 2004 11:59 PM