Dallas trip...next week
 

Have to go down to Dallas for a few days next week for work. I've never been outside of the airport before. Is there anything cool I should go check out while I am there, perhaps museums or something like that?

You might find some ideas in one of these threads:

What to do in Dallas?
What is there to see/do in Dallas?
Dallas Dining

Thanks! (note to self--use the search function next time....)

I love Dallas and have always hads a great time there. Make sure you go out for a few drinks and enjoy the night life. The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 411 Elm Street is also worth a look.

Enjoy

Two relatively new museums that are must-sees if you like contemporary art are the Nasher sculpture museum in Dallas - and the Fort Worth Museum of Contemporary Art (sorry if I got the names a little wrong). Robyn

It's not Dallas but the "Metroplex"
 

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.

It's DFW metro area
 

Nobody uses "Metroplex" anymore except people who don't live here. It's sooooo 80's.

...And your choice "Big D" has more than echoes of the 50s than any other decade. Using it drops you right squat in the middle of decade in which the shirts of downtown were both starched and stuffed. Dallas is one of those cities with too many residents of insufferable self-pretentiousness exceeding those in Atlanta, leading many visitors to label it a Pompousville.

I will admit that from being among the country's best governed cities during those halcyon days, it has descended into a pit of medicority that the old "Town Fathers" at Republic, FNB and Mercantile would have not allowed. Since being seized by the "Electric Cloth" suit and Crocagator boots set in the early 80s, good government has been replaced by misgovernment and recently no recognizable government at all (except occasional flashes of corruption). Surpassed in appeal by a laundry list of suburbs, Dallasites now have to look far uphill to see their neighbors, while Ft. Worth looms overhead, a veritable Mt. Everest in stature.

Maybe former HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, semi-disgraced and bit inflamed after being ridden out of Washington on a rail, will move back to join the power brokers and the soon-to-be-broke powerrs. Miz Laura sez she and George will be house hunting, soon as the Pope leaves and the wedding on Prairie Chapel Road is finished, but I reckon they'll fort up in Highland Park.

;)