Cowboys and Steak, welcome to America

September 15^th,

We headed to Fort Worth which was about 30 miles west of Dallas, it took around 40 minutes, we were making our way to The Stockyards, a famous historic district that all the cattle trade used to come through back in the day. It is the real deal, cowboys and rodeo’s (which unforuntately were not on when we were there). We got there around 12:30 and we still hadn’t eaten anything for breakfast and also we hadn’t had a proper steak yet in America, let along a Texas steak, so this was our time! We went to search for our lunch, it was a classic place! Check out the pictures, cows heads on the wall and a proper BBQ bit in the back on full display, love it!

We got right down to it, I ordered a Texas T-bone steak with a side of 2 ribs and a chicken thigh and Paolo got a rib steak! Both meals came with bread, a salad and a baked potato. It was brilliant! Oh how we had waited for this steak and oh how it had lived up to our expectations, we had built up the idea of a Texas steak so much in our heads, it was totally worth the wait! Check it out!

It was an brilliant little town, it has kept its old time style, cowboys wondering around the town and we went to all the gift stores. It was so hot, the sun was glaring down and the constant beating heat was draining, luckily we found a booth selling frozen margarita’s so we got a couple and it saw us through for a few more hours, we were waiting around till 4pm because they had the walking of the longhorn bulls.

The roads were closed and cowboys lined the streets as they rounded up the longhorns and recreated what it was like when the stockyards were in full swing, there was only about 30 cows here but back when it was full operational there would be over 3000 cows going through these streets everyday and they would be controlled by no more than 20 cowboys riding up and down the streets.

We were still full from our massive lunches, yet there was also a famous place in the area that we needed to eat at so we were going to save that for dinner, so in order to help us build up an appaetite we went to go see movie called ‘The Other Guys’ classic Will Ferrell! A bit of humor never goes down badly. We made our way back into the stockyards and hit up JC Garcia that was a famous Mexican place, at dinner they only serve two dishes which are their specialities, that is all you can order, either fajitas or enchiladas . It was a bit overrated and Mexican food starts to blend into one, its not all that great, its simply mince meat, lettuce, beans and rice so it is difficult to stand out and this didn’t really.

We made our way home again, it gets dark early here so we made our way back to Dallas and the traffic was terrible so it took us forever to make our way back.