1. If you do nothing else, rent a car. Everything in the Metroplex is distant.

2. While I'm hardly a "museum freak", the Nasher Sculpture Garden/Museum in Dallas and the Kimbell in Ft. Worth are more than worth the time. The Kimball is one of the best museums around, in that it is small enough to see without "over-loading". Adjacent to the Kimbell is the Amon Carter - a stop if you're into "Cowboy" and Western Art of the F. Remington sort.

3. Just around the corner is one of the last of the real Hamburger Joints, Kinkaid's Groc., lunch with everybody else's' friends.

4. Compact and successfully redeveloped, downtown FW, especially the Sundance Square area is walkable, while the old Stockyards district, saloons, "Western Wear"/Boot stores, steak joints, etc., is thematic appealing to those who dance that way.

5. While Dallas offers much to do, I always have the feeling that one needs a Dallasite or two in company to be comfortable. Like Atlanta (and there are those of us who would swear that the cities are interchangeable except for street signs (although Dallas is much larger, and both have suburbs stretching way into the boondocks). Dallas can be a bit pretentious, many of its denizens over-impressed with its culture, and for all the available things to do, sites to see and culture to absorb, Austin, San Antonio and Houston remain more fun.

6. As I post, the last cool morning is departing. It gets muggy and hot by late April.