The
exchange schedule is as follows:
Wednesday
October 15
10:00
AM
Home Hosts and other members of club travel to DFW by auto to
meet Delta Flight 1463 from Atlanta at 10:47 AM.
After greetings and welcome, home hosts take their guests to
houses to rest. (NOTE: the
flight leaves Lima at 12:10 AM and they will have left Trujillo around 6
to 8 PM on the evening of Oct. 14, with plane changes in Lima and
Atlanta, so they will need a rest and time for unpacking).
Please wear your FF badge and bring with you a sign with the name
of your guest. Check
landing gate before going to DFW and we will meet at the baggage area.
Thursday,
October 16
Daytime
hours might include individual touring of parts of Dallas not on the
scheduled tours.
5:00
PM: (In charge:
James Bourn) Welcome party and reception at house of Jim Bourn.
This will be an outdoor casual party with pork barbecue and
drinks furnished. The entire club is invited.
Ambassadors attend free, Dallas Club members are asked to
contribute $6.00 and bring a salad or vegetable dish.
To help with planning please make your reservation by Oct 14 if
you plan to attend by calling Dale Yost or e-mailing the webmaster at txtravel@flash.net.
Those who can do so, please bring chairs.
Friday,
October 17: Dallas Day
Walking
trip of down town Dallas. (In charge: Ray Enstam)
10:00
AM: All ambassadors and
their home hosts or day hosts, and all interested club members, meet at
Union Station. Paid parking
is available nearby, but it is suggested that guests and hosts use free
parking at the DART stations and buy a day pass on DART.
Cost of day pass is $2.50. Cost
of day pass for ambassadors is reimbursed by club.
The DART trip downtown is part of the tour and should be of
interest to ambassadors. Ray Enstam will act as the tour guide of the
walking tour and wait for all participants at the Union Station.
We
will take this route:
Walk
up Young Street;
stop
at the Pioneer Plaza sculptures to rest;
past
city hall and library;
turn
left on Harwood past Neiman Marcus and Thanksgiving Square and heart of
city.
Stop
at Ross, look from outside at Dallas Museum, Myerson Symphony Hall,
Cathedral, Dallas Bar HQ at Belo Mansion, short visit to the sculptures
at Trammel Crow building;
Take
DART to West End (day pass covers this);
Lunch
at West End: On The Border Tex-Mex, on Corbin Street, just off Market.
(Ambassadors meals paid by
the club.)
Walking
tour of West End and then past Kennedy Monument, School Book Depository,
Dealey Plaza, Old Red Courthouse and back to Union Station.
Go up in the Hyatt Regency Tower for aerial view of the city and
home by DART.
Saturday, October 18 and Sunday October 19
In
house small group dinners at hour and date selected by the dinner host. In charge: Mary Helen Lyons - MHLTX@mymailstation.com. Days are free time for shopping, museums, etc or just getting
to know the guests.
Monday
October 20, Dallas Arboretum
10:00
AM: Visit to the Dallas
Arboretum. We get a group
rate of $5 for a group of
20 or more (regular rate $7). There
is a picnic area with tables and also a snack-bar to purchase food.
Hosts are invited to bring picnic lunch so we can lunch together
at tables with view of Lake, and you can buy drinks or any extras you
may need.
Tuesday,
October 21, Fort Worth Day (in charge: Ray Enstam)
10:00
AM. Arrive by private auto
at the Sid Richardson Western Art Museum at 309 Main Street (between 2nd
and 3rd ). Free
entrance and also free parking nearby with stamped voucher from museum.
Directions:
LBJ to DFW Airport, take 121 South to Ft. Worth.
Stay on 121 (Becomes Belknap) past courthouse on left, turn left
at Houston, turn left on 3rd
and Chisholm Trail. Parking lot is immediately on your right.
If lot is full proceed past Main to Commerce, left on Commerce
and there is a garage on right side just past 2nd street.
Allow an hour (40 miles) from LBJ and Galleria area.
After
this, to Stockyards to watch daily cattle drive at 11:30.
Directions:
From museum go north on Commerce which merges into Main. Stay on Main (also called Hwy 287) to E. Exchange Blvd. (just
past 24th Street) and turn right. Go to end of street.
There is paid parking all along street, but the last lot on left
is free, as is parking at end of street on top of hill near the Blue
Armour Swift historical building. You will be right across the street for Riscky Rita’s
Tex-Mex (last restaurant on the right as you go along Exchange. About
ten minute trip from museum.
Lunch at Riscky Rita’s Tex-Mex.
Ambassadors' lunches are paid by club.
To help reserve places at restaurant please give notice by Oct 14
if you plan to attend by calling Dale Yost,
or contact Ray Enstam at enstam@sbcglobal.net.
After
lunch each party on their own.
Suggestions:
1.
Tour of Stockyard area;
2.
Return down Main Street to Sun Dance Plaza and center of Ft. Worth;
3.
Go to museum area. Return
down Main Street, turn right on Northside Drive which becomes
University, past Camp Bowie, and turn next right on Lancaster.
Kimbell Art Museum, Amon Carter Western Art Museum, Science
Museum, Modern Art Museum.
Easy
way to Dallas from stockyards:
Go
north on Main, turn right on 28th Street, north on 35W, east
on 820, follow signs to 121 North.
Wednesday,
October 22, Farewell Party.
5:00
PM. Farewell party at
Darwin and Myra Smith’s house. This
will be a catered barbecue, for which the caterer will set up a serving
line in the back yard. Ambassadors
attend free and members of FF Dallas will pay a fee of $15.00 based on
our actual costs. To help with planning please send payment by Oct 17 to
Dale Yost, or contact the webmaster for information: txtravel@flash.net.
Price includes music,
entertainment, drinks and partying!
Party will be a Halloween theme, and costumes are appropriate!
Thursday,
October 23 Departure for Austin.
Bus
departure from 7:30 AM at Greyhound Station, 205 S. Lamar.
Home hosts will arrange transportation for guests.
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