I was in the paint store the other day and the kid behind the counter had such a thick accent that I said, “You gotta be from east Texas.”
”Yes, sir,” he said. “Paris, Texas.”
It’s only about 80 miles northeast of McKinney, but all I knew about Paris, Texas is that there was a 1984 movie of the same name. It starred Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, and Dean Stockwell.
”How big is Paris?” I asked.
”About twenty-five thousand people, sir.”
”And what is there to do in Paris?”
”Well, sir, we have the world’s second tallest Eiffel Tower but it’s better than the original because ours has a red cowboy hat on top. And we also have BurgerLand, which makes the world’s best hamburger.”
Well, who could resist visiting Paris after a sales pitch like that? Jamie, Tinker and I drove over this morning and made a day of it.
We explored the downtown square’s antique stores, took selfies in front of the world’s second largest Eiffel Tower, and partook of the haute cuisine at BurgerLand. (It was one of those great, old, hole-in-the-wall places that had greasy, delicious burgers and fries that soaked right through the wax paper they were wrapped in.)
Now we’re thinking about taking a tour of Texas’ other European-named towns: Amsterdam, Athens, Belgrade, Copenhagen, Dublin, Edinburg, Florence, and London. Who knows? There may be even more of them out there.
Firstly, I have to say…..In the paint store????? you are hooked on this painting gig now aren’t you hahaha
Second, but probably should have been first, but I read the post before the photos loaded, but you have one good looking wife 🙂
Third, the kid sure knew his population numbers by the looks of that sign.
Hope you are enjoying exploring your own homelands but still wish you were here XX
Yeah, yeah, I know Jamie’s beautiful, but what about that good-lookin’ dog?
We’ll be back as soon as Australia opens its borders again. American Airlines just announced that it is moving its South Pacific hub to Dallas, which should make it much easier to get back and forth.