Well if you must leave Texas, try American Flyers in Santa Monica(they have a Dallas location too), or maybe ATP in Hayward or Sacramento. They'll get you done fast, and then it's up to you to build hours and experience.
Hayward is near San Francisco, in the summer there is a light fog layer that burns off every day pretty early. Santa Monica is sort of the same way, but you'll squinting through the L.A. smog. Sacramento is in the Central Valley and it's hot like Texas in the summer, sometimes dense fog in the winter.