Trip To Dallas

I recently went to Dallas on a business trip for Blendtec. We are associated with a chef back in Utah named Todd Leonard. He is a big fan of Blendtec and he was going on a national championship with the ACF . So it was a perfect fit that we should sponsor him. He is an awesome chef!

I also took the opportunity to take my sweet wife. Stephanie had never been to Dallas, except for midway points flying to South Padre Island.

I have high school friends there, so my first choice was one of my best friends, Bob and his wife Lori. Bob is a drummer, I learned drumming from him. Bob has practiced his art for years and I would choose him first over anyone. So we had musical flash-backs of entire albums of Rush, The Police, Yes and The Cars. He says he would want to start a Cars tribute band because he feels they had a lot of music that had been under exposed. I agree.

Steph and I spent most of our time at the Gaylord Texan (love the name). We went to the Grapevine Historical district, and we also looked for a theater that would take The Last Eagle Scout, which is one of three cities I am opening in: Salt Lake, Dallas and LA.

Dallas also has some ghosts that I have had to conquer. The last time I was here, I was packing up things from a storage unit from a short-lived marriage that changed my life forever. Yet it was so short, I have since forgotten most of it's moments. I have attempted to write these down for the time when I will need to recall the events. But while here, I chose not to visit those ghostly locations, even though there was time to do so. I chose to look ahead and focus on the work at hand, namely my film, my friends, and watching my wife riding the mechanical bull at the Gaylord.