Cold and wet and not a ray of sunlight

Since yesterday the weather has suddenly changed... it is no longer sunny and warm with heavy winds chilling bones... it is completely overcast with clouds, no sunshine at all... in fact not even a trace of sunlight... and occassionally drizzling... not to mention the biting cold which encompasses our body when we go outdoors.... definitely not a good time to trek or hike in the woods of flat-as-pancake-Dallas region...

I was under the impression that the entire Texas was a flatland, replete with cattle ranches and horse borne cowboys with guns in their hip and chest holsters... but no... Texas has all kinds of landscapes... flat plains, high mountains with deep valleys and the ocean too... It is amazing.... but life is a tad too slow for people who come from India... or any other big city of US. Vehicles move fast on roads but life seems to stand still... there are big roads and vast open spaces but without the undulations created by the mother earth it seems boring to walk straight. The scenery is the same.... houses, grasslands, and sometimes big lakes...

Oh yes Dallas has this unique distinction, like Bangalore once used to have few hundred lakes around the city, this city has 163 large and medium sized lakes/ waterbodies within a distance of 100 miles from the city. Each lake is amazingly well maintained and most of them have boat piers where one can rent jet skis, sail boats, paddle boats, power boats etc... Wish India had such facilities and people lived good lives. That is not so, even if one invests and creates such facilities it would be ineconomical to run them because there wouldn't be enough customers... who are willing to pay to avail such services.

Yesterday I visited the American Eagle Harley Davidson showroom... oh! wow... it was heaven... I hate working in the sales department of any compay but if I were to get a sales job here I would happily do that... anyway I will be happier in the service working on the engine and transmission of these iron horses... I hadn't carried my camera, else I would have been able to get some really good pictures of bikes and the way they get serviced. I have made friends with some of the staff including the service manager who assured me that I can come anytime and take pictures of the works.

Wait for them.. and believe me you wont be disappointed... these machines are simply beautiful and riding them over the open highways, through undulating mountainous roads, hurtling down the slopes and just enjoying listeing to the deep throaty drone of the V-twin engines is nirvana... I simply love being around these massive motorcycles.

But for now I better get up and start my day...... there is loads of work to do.... and I haven't even started...