Day 10 was simply a travel day, with nothing planned except a long day sitting in a car. Sadly even the countryside was tedious as we crossed the dry grass plains of the northern Texas. Not a hill to be seen, just a few oil derricks. The only real stop for the day was for lunch at a really tatty diner, which had flies swarming over the salad bar. We settled for some salads off the menu for lunch( hoping the kitchen had a fly killer in it), but these turned out to be less than imaginatively served!
Eight hours after setting out we finally arrive in Dallas. Immediately after stepping out of our car we are hit by the fierce heat and sopping humidity. We longed to be back in the temperate, dry atmosphere of the West Coast. Our hotel, the Quality Inn, was having a “Happy Hour”, and on offer were cold (tasteless) beers and nasty wine, which normally we'd not have looked at twice, but after travelling halfway across Texas and the sapping effects of carrying our bags from the car in the “tropical” heat we'd have drunk our own urine if it had been chilled!
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