Cackle and Oink BBQ

We started our roadtrip up to Chicago but before we left Texas we had to stop by the Cackle and Oink BBQ for lunch..  Pork butts were on the menu but we settled for brisket and sausages.. tasty!

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Crusin around the Ellum

we spent the rest of day cruising around the Deep Ellum area dropping into a few establishments to relieve ourselves from the 40 degrees heat outside.

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Brain Dead Brewery

We continued our free bus ride around the city outskirts and came across Brain Dead Brewery so we thought it would be rude not to pop in and see what was on offer

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Dallas Farmers Market

A new farmers market has sprung up with a heap of cool stalls and a huge nursery.

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Noble Ray Brewing

A brewery.. well that can’t go untried.

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Around Dallas

A few shots around the city. It’s nothing like Melbourne or Sydney with no real life in the city area. There is virtually no retail or atmosphere like Melbourne. It’s really just a business district. All the shopping is in malls and large boxes lining the highways.  The outskirts of the city is starting to […]

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Hotel pretty swanky

We are staying at the Hyatt a huge mirror clad set of towers that is one of the landmark buildings in Dallas. Its only meters away from the grassy knowl where JFK got shot, you will see an x on the road, thats where he copped it

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Deep Ellem Brewery

A few tasty beers to quench the first and escape the heat.

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As hot as hell

Its boiling out there today is another 40 degree day fortunately no humidity but sun is blistering.  We head down to the Deep Ellum district on the edge of the city its a bit of an old small industrial area undergoing massive Gentrification heap of new developments and lot so funky bars,cafes and leisure businesses  […]

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Watch out Texas here we come

The flight from Sydney to Dallas was about 15 hours and went pretty easy a few beers and a chicken very tasty snitchel  dinner washed down with a few reds and even a muscat of  all things it was time to explore the Airbus A380. We found a nice private bar up the front and […]

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USA here we come

not long now…chill the beers, smoke the brisket  … the 2018 road trip is about to begin

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