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About to start registration and presidents reception!! Supposed to be around 80 first time attendees!!

I’ve been managing both for years now, and the overlap can get really rough, especially during high stress or mood swings. What helped me was keeping a detailed log of my mood and headache patterns to spot triggers. Also, during tough stretches, I leaned on support resources like a ptsd hotline — they’re not just for trauma, but helped me feel seen when things got overwhelming.

I'm a native Texan but Minnesota is home now. If you're looking for things to see in Texas, head to the Hill Country. The smaller towns and cities are the best parts, but Austin and San Antonio are full of cool stuff. By Texas standards that's a short trip from DFW. If that's too far for you, don't bother going far from the hotel. Fort Worth is generally more chill than Dallas, but both have a lot to see and do. After the those places, you gotta go for a good road trip to see much worthwhile: Lubbock, Big Bend, El Paso, Corpus Christi. I don't recommend anywhere remotely close to Houston, Abilene, Midland, Odessa. These are all places you should only be if you're being paid to be there. You can see areas similar to most of Northeast Texas minutes east of Dallas. A few minutes west of Fort Worth will give you a good idea about the inhabited parts of West Texas. Things get scrubby and sparce pretty fast out that way. Big bonus points: there's a high concentration of South Indian people north of Dallas, relatively near the airport. If you aren't familiar with South Indian food, go seek it out. It's different from the North Indian food available in most US Indian restaurants. Aside from that, you want to eat Tex Mex (not real Mexican food), any small town local BBQ place, and a decent chicken fried steak (they aren't all equal). I generally recommend local restaurants, but if you're looking for chains: The best meal at Whataburger is breakfast, but it's gone downhill in the last 20 years. Not usually bad now, but not what it used not be. Braums has better burgers and better breakfast (fight me) if you get a good store. They are hit or miss though. People say Dairy Queen is a Texas Stop sign, but I think Sonic feels more "Texan."

See you all in a few days. Should be another good time with the rest of the headbangers from all over the world.

I'm sure some of the TX locals will chime in with suggestions as they see this. Right now, we plan on just driving around between Dallas and west TX. This isn't our first trip to TX so we are just picking a section we haven't been to before.

We are coming from New Zealand. We intend to do the same or after the conference. It sure would be good to hear of any must see things in Texas! Look forward to meeting ya’ll.