Originally Posted by
TOMFORD
I don't care much for arts/music/opera or anything rich a-holes would refer to as "the finer things in live". I also do not care much for hiking. But I do love good food - everything from bbq to fancy gastromolecular cuisines. What I also love is traveling. How is the airfare out of DFW/DAL for weekend get aways? DC, surprisingly, is not as cheap as I thought even with the competition of three airports. Weekend get aways to NY/BOS is about $350, Miami usually $500+, Atlanta usually ~$500, etc. Is that the standard price now for short haul domestic F? In terms of long haul, I go to Asia for vacations. I imagine in a few years miles will be useless, or at least impossible to amass for someone who does not travel for work. In NY there are often good business fares to Asia for <$3500, what about from DFW? Actually the last one doesn't matter since I still have enough miles to last me two more years, maybe by that time I'll be ready to move again.
I'm more about the food myself. You'll find plenty of good BBQ in the DFW area. For Texas BBQ, there's Pecan Lodge in Deep Ellum and Lockhart BBQ in the Bishop Arts District if you want to stay close to the Dallas core. Venture to the suburbs and you have Meat U Anywhere in Grapevine or Hutchins in McKinney. If you like Korean BBQ, I like the ones by Old K-Town off of I-35 and Royal and would say it's similar to what you find in Annandale, VA. You're not going to really find any gastromolecular cuisine here...Stephan Pyles used to do it, but that was awhile ago. As I said earlier, no Michelin restaurants. If you like a good steak, my go to places are Pappa Bros steakhouse and Nick & Sam's, but there's so many of them. Things are getting more trendy with ramen shops popping up and Carlos Bakery just opened up. We got some good sushi restaurants as well.
As for travel, Love Field is home of Southwest and you have JetBlue and Virgin flying out there as well. DFW is AA's HUB so lots of options if you're an AA member. Price is going to be similar...$500+ for F going to NY/BOS, Miami, Atlanta and etc. but there are good deals now and then. The pro for Dallas is that it's right in the middle so you can go east or west coast for about the same cost. When I go to Asia, it's usually AA or Korean for non-stop or 1 stop depending if I am going to China or Vietnam. There's that popular DFW-HKG route. I've seen some cheap discount economy seats out of DFW to SE Asia for $600-$700 and just use miles to upgrade.