Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Dallas & the Panhandle Plains
Why Go?
Dallas and Fort Worth may be next-door neighbors, but they're hardly twins - or even kiss-
ing cousins. Long regarded as being divergent as a Beemer-driving sophisticate and a
rancher in a Ford pickup truck, these two cities have starkly different facades. Beyond ap-
pearances, however, they share a love of high (and low) culture and good old-fashioned
Texan fun. In the surrounding area is a plethora of fabulous small towns worthy of a road
trip, including Waxahachie and McKinney.
Leave the big smoke behind and you'll find that the Panhandle and Central Plains may
be the part of Texas that most typifies the state to outsiders. This is a land of sprawling
cattle ranches, where people can still make a living on horseback. The landscape appears
endlessly flat, punctuated only by utility poles and windmills, until a vast canyon material-
izes and seems to plunge into another world.
When to Go
Mar-May
Spring comes early to Texas and the wildflowers stage a grand show.
Jun-Aug
It's hot! But air-con and swimming in water holes will cool you down.
