I left Hawaii, the sun and warmth all in one 9 days ago. In Seattle it was rainy, windy, grey and cold :( but it was nice to be back on U.S. main land and in a city I haven't been before! Seattle is great, but I have to admit I chose the wrong hostel for the first time... The city hostel was cool, don't get me wrong, but it was just too big, with too many people and no way to get to know people, so I was kind of doomed to be alone this time and to go sight-seeing by myself!! I went up to the Columbian Tower, Public Library, Pike Place Market, EMP (Experience Music Project), Space Needle, Woodland Zoo and I even did a day-trip to Victoria, BC! I've seen great things and I had a good time, but doing it all alone is quite boring and it never took me long to look at things, so I had a lot of time and nothing to do! Oh well, I decided to make the best out of it and enjoyed my alone-time reading, watching series on my ipad and just laying around! Some REAL holidays and not always chasing sight after sight :)
On Thursday I left Seattle and headed for Dallas, Texas! I've always wondered how the Southern US will be since I only knew it from movies and TV shows. First I had to pick up my rental car at the airport.... The woman asked "Kia? dodge? VW?", well that was an easy decision: VW Jetta please ;) the car is great and my GPS let me stright to the hostel! It's okay, but the worst I've been so far. It's just a house that someone doesn't use anymore so he decided to make a backpackers out of it! It's dirty, small, overbooked, has plastic around the mattresses and it's just totally falling apart. Other than that it's alright for 3 night. There were 6 other people here when I came and they all wanted to go out to a local country club, and one of the men here at the hostel was driving us, so I decided to go too! It was Ladies night, so we got in for free and had to pay less for drinks. It was really cool seeing real cowboys and seeing them dance the typical country two-step! :D at midnight they dropped balloons with money in it and only women were allowed to catch them! I managed to get 6$ out of it ;)
Yesterday I went sight-seeing in Dallas. There isn't much to see, but we went to the Pioneers Plaza, Farmers Market (that was a joke), JFK Memorial, Old Red Building, some nice parks and in the evening we went to the Forth Worth Stockyards to see the Rodeo! It was absolutely awesome!! :) I had a lot of fun and it was cool to see a real rodeo wirh the bull riders and horses etc! After the rodeo we went to Billy Bob's, a famous country club at the Stockyards and the pretty well-known country band The Band Perry was performing! It was great, but unfortunately we had to leave after an hour already, because not all of us could sleep in today ;)
Well I could and I did ^^ today was another lazy day, but I loved it! I could wash my clothes, catch up with my parents on skype and talking with some of my relatives in Virginia....oh and write this post ;)
Tomorrow I'm heading to Houston with my pretty car :) ... All the cities and sights are starting to be a little bit overwhelming and I can't wait to get to good old Virginia and Maryland and spend the time with my family and friends :)
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