I had recently posted pictures of our first apartment in this country. We revisited it when we went to Fort Lauderdale area a couple of weeks back.

From Florida, our next stop was Texas. Grapevine, Texas to be precise.

During our visit to Dallas last week, we went back to that first apartment in Dallas area we had lived in. We were there till 1995 at which point I had changed my job and moved to Arlington.

Incredible how the apartment complex, the pool area and everything around it has remained pretty much the same. I could drive there purely from memory.

In fact, I parked our rental car – a Toyota Camry from Avis – exactly at the same spot where we had parked our rental car the first night in Texas some 31 years back – also a Toyota Camry from Avis!! Only to wake up the next morning to realize our car had been broken into!!

That was a bit of a jarring welcome into Texas!!