Solomon Grandy ...
Solomon Grandy, walked on Monday, rode on Tuesday, motored on Wednesday... and so on.
As for Mich and I, we walked on Monday, walked on Tuesday, uh!.. we are still walking.
Dallas is a very beautiful city and we love to take our time to sip in the fresh air, chase squirrels, watch turtles and ducks swim and many other things. But... there is always a but, and we need to know what the but is there for, well Dallas is not exactly a walkable city as compared with good ol Philly.
If you want to get to the road side or to the backyard, you can walk all you want because after that it just is not possible. Shops, church, entertainment, parks are a long way away. Majority of the Texans drive, there is however a small percentage that take the bus and it's interesting that most people don't even know that Dallas has public transport.
Mich and I have had to walk to lots of places, ( I must commend the young man because he takes it in stride, never a complaint, just make sure you have some snack handy or can drop into a fast food place for a drink or something). We gets lots of people looking at us from out of their cars probably wondering why I chose not to use the car today or thinking that I'm doing exercise and have decided to enrol my son on the program as a morale booster, the only problem is most times we are not dressed like we are going jogging or brisk walking.
When asking for directions never take the "it's just round the corner, or it's only 10 minutes a way" thing lightly because it isn't, you'll get burned out walking there and probably give up half way the journey.
Once Sam and I were looking at a map for directions to a hospital and on the map it looked near, so I thought I would walk but Sam said, 'it certainly looks near but you might want to take the bus' (thank God for a submissive spirit that day). I took the bus and man! the distance was like from Wandegeya to Lugogo.
As for Mich and I, we walked on Monday, walked on Tuesday, uh!.. we are still walking.
Dallas is a very beautiful city and we love to take our time to sip in the fresh air, chase squirrels, watch turtles and ducks swim and many other things. But... there is always a but, and we need to know what the but is there for, well Dallas is not exactly a walkable city as compared with good ol Philly.
If you want to get to the road side or to the backyard, you can walk all you want because after that it just is not possible. Shops, church, entertainment, parks are a long way away. Majority of the Texans drive, there is however a small percentage that take the bus and it's interesting that most people don't even know that Dallas has public transport.
Mich and I have had to walk to lots of places, ( I must commend the young man because he takes it in stride, never a complaint, just make sure you have some snack handy or can drop into a fast food place for a drink or something). We gets lots of people looking at us from out of their cars probably wondering why I chose not to use the car today or thinking that I'm doing exercise and have decided to enrol my son on the program as a morale booster, the only problem is most times we are not dressed like we are going jogging or brisk walking.
When asking for directions never take the "it's just round the corner, or it's only 10 minutes a way" thing lightly because it isn't, you'll get burned out walking there and probably give up half way the journey.
Once Sam and I were looking at a map for directions to a hospital and on the map it looked near, so I thought I would walk but Sam said, 'it certainly looks near but you might want to take the bus' (thank God for a submissive spirit that day). I took the bus and man! the distance was like from Wandegeya to Lugogo.
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