Things to do in Dallas?

In My Humble Opinion
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With the caveat that it will be hot as balls, if you want to do something that gives you a feel for Dallas, I would do thia:

Get up fairly early, like 10 AM, and drive to the corner of Swiss and Fitzhugh, or about there. Find a place to park. Walk if you turn north, Swiss Avenue is full of stately architecture and yards and trees. If you turn South, it is super BoHo. If you go over one block and walk up and down Sycamore, its BoHo mixed with decay. Like, actual shacks next to super contemporary apartments next to cinder block apartments next to charming cottages. And amazing trees. It’s like all the strata of Dallas, both socioeconomic and across time, are exposed in about 3 blocks.

Then, when you get tired of that, drive to Fitzhugh and Bryan and go to Jimmys for lunch. It’s an Italian grocery store that has lasted through multiple cycles of decay and gentrification in the neighborhood. It has all kinds of amazing imports, but the deli is what is famous: they sell a lot of ingredients (homemade sausage, pizza dough, etc) but they also sell sandwiches. They are fantastic.

Then, depending on your temperament, go to the flagship Half Price books at Northwest Highway , which is a used bookstore the size of a Super Walmart, or go to Lakewood Landing for an authentic dive bar. Or go to White Rock Lake: you can pay to do the Arboretum, or just park at Gaston and Garland, at the Spillway, and walk the path.

At that point, you have had a day full of distinctly Dallas experiences.

Are you coming from another big city? A lot of atuff we have is cool, but all big cities have it. Like, H-Mart is amazing if youve never seen anything like it, but I imagine most major metropolises have one.

Then, when you

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I’ll second this- Jimmy’s has a sort of bodega-ish feel, in that it’s pretty much a full Italian grocery store, deli, and coffee shop packed into a pretty small place. Really great sandwiches and coffee, and a fun grocery store browse.

White Rock Lake is another very Dallas thing. We’ve got a 1000 acre lake roughly 5 miles from the center of Downtown, right smack in the middle of East Dallas. The entire perimeter is a city park with a walk/bike trail, and there are larger parks dotted around the lake as well, with playgrounds, dog parks, and so forth.

Mid-late June will probably be pretty hot, so you may want to plan your outdoor activities carefully- the morning lows are usually in the 70s, and the highs will likely be in the mid-90s by then.

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A friend of mine is a curator at the DMA.

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Speaking of which, a friend was recently in Dallas and visited the JFK museum located in the former book depository building. https://www.jfk.org/

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Welp, I appreciate all the recommendations, but the mother of one of my son’s teammates has offered to drive everybody down and put them up at a hotel. One parent of each teammate gets to go, which will be Mrs. solost. So my dreams of Dallas doings are on hold for now, perhaps forever…

:cry: