This morning I got up and caught a plane to Dallas. What a day to catch a plane to Dallas. In Dallas, the grass was green but the weather was gray and drizzly.
Dallas has the most spectacular intersections I have ever seen. In fact Dallas has more concrete than any city I have ever seen. Concrete is big business in Big D it looks like. I don’t know if you can tell but I’m not a Dallas fan. Except for the Dallas Cowboys, now I like them. I am not a fan of the Dallas Fort Worth Airport though. I have been flying to it or through it for almost forty years and I hate it. The food is awful also. Hey, I like the Dallas Cowboys though.
I’d never seen Dallas so drizzly. Enough on Dallas, okay? We went to see a custoemr and it was a short meeting . Too short. We flew back to Tulsa just in time to…. Go to work!!! Groan. That is okay because I was going to go run on Turkey Mountain afterward with a group of people.
So I went to Turkey Mountain and there were three other people to run the trails with me. Trouble was, there were all fast and I am slow. Actually if I speeded up I would be considered slow. I don’t apologize for it, it is what it is. Anyway when it came to time to go I said I would go run the paved trail instead of going with them. They were nice about it and if I wanted to go with them they would have stopped every now and then to let me catch up but neither they or I would have been too happy with that. So they headed off to the mountain and I headed down the hill to the paved trail.
I didn’t want to run by myself on the mountain at night. I run all they time during daylight by myself and never get turned around but I do get turned around at night on the mountain.
Running on the paved trail on the west bank was pretty eerie. Kind of Blair Witch Project Eerie. Starting with the message on the road above. Why should I keep going.
I ran about a mile and a half up the trail to the poop plant. A city wastewater plant. they have a flare where they burn off the poop gas.
And a big huge spherical tank. I don’t know what is in the tank. I don’t want to find out.
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The trail has a railroad crossing. It was kind of spooky at night.
I was glad to get off the trail and back home because I had some research to do after such a long day.
A nice home grown Oklahoma Imperial Stout.
Man, what a long ass day is what I say.
How was your day?
Well, mine was surely better than yours although I was home all day! Our weather is so incredibly beautiful, warm and mild and has been almost all winter!!! It’s amazing and I’m surely not complaining!!
Stay warm! Hope the remainder of your week goes well!!
I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near Dallas when the weather was bad. Although, I will admit that the Dallas drivers provide a lot of entertainment when the roads are icy. You think they would learn to just stay home.
I don’t think you should be running in the dark on a mountain by yourself. Just sayin that might not be a good idea.
Most of us mere mortals would have been ready for that research wayyyyy before that nighttime run.
slightly better than you, but still it was all work, work, and work…I haven’t been to Dallas before and hopefully I will..
Kind of a long commute.
I’ve been to Dallas a few times (actually, Arlington) and I must admit Dallas does LOVE concrete. 🙂