Hiking Trails and a Mustang museum

Last week we were scouting where to go in flat as pancake Dallas. Wondering what to do. We decided to check out some hiking trail in Las Colinas town about 15 miles from Lewisville. Thinking it would be some interesting wilderness and tough hiking we started driving towards Las Colinas.

The Mustangs of Las Colinas is nothing but a large courtyard in front of a building where life like bronze sculptures of mustand horses have been installed. These mustangs appear as if they are running through a stream of water (fountain) and are pretty interesting. The sculptures are executed well and look realistic.

The hiking trail was nothing but a paved path through some countryside. Dallas has a lot of creeks and springs which flow throughout the year. Some of them are also fed by the city's drainage while the others are fairly clean. But the one good thing about these creeks is that there is no trash visible, there maybe drainage but it is only water, not plastics, paper or anything else. Moreover on both sides of the creek, the are is landscaped with good lawns and these are maintained pretty well. I don't know how the city's administration raises budgets for this, especially when the state government does't levy any income tax on its 4 million citizens (a few millions lesser than Bangalore's population) but Texas is several times larger than Bangalore. That perhaps explains the low real estate value and sparse population in the state. One can buy an excellent, fully furnished home for about $250,000 (Rs.1 crore) with a nice garden, sited in one of the better residential localities in suburban Dallas. But in Bangalore getting a piece of land for that price is difficult.

Coming back to the hiking trail it is just a paved path for people to walk/ bike (bicycle) and children to skate. The path passes through a nice green forest and grassland, this is what it is all about. We opted out of walking the trail and just drove back to Mary's home.