Today at 4:30pm we leave for Washington, D.C. on our way to Sao Paulo, Brazil. The strange routing is a requirement of using "air miles". Anyways we have to go North to go South? We arrive in Brazil at 10 am tomorrow morning.
We have learned some things about Texas while we were here by treating this place as any other culture in which we are immersed. We discovered that Texas has culture (who'd have thunk). There is a spectacular private sculpture museum with Picasso's, Rodin's, etc in Dallas as well as a great art gallery. We also quite enjoyed the aquarium, which is worth the visit and has improved greatly since my last visit about 10 years ago. After the aquarium , Joy and I walked up to Dragon Street to view a number of private galleries in good space in old warehouses. Quite impressive! For both our trips downtown we use the "DART" rail system which combines a surface and sub-station rapid transit system which "morphs" into a street-car system downtown.
It is difficult to see the down-turn in the economy here as everyone madly goes about shopping and driving SUVs. It will be interesting to compare to Sao Paulo, as Brazil is doing well in the new "global" economy. We have not decided where we go from Sao Paulo, but it will be West or South West. We have booked a hostel in Sao Paulo for 3 nights to see some of the sights and also to get used to the environment.
Joy has done a couple of paintings here which you can see on her blog.
Jim
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