Dallas Texas USA
After sorting out all the stuff we DON'T need and stuff we want but had to post...we got downtown...to the post office...
And we got there by shuttle bus. No kidding...first we took the hotel shuttle, then a bus to Terminal C..then a bus to Terminal E..then a train to the main street of Dallas!!!
It took us an hour and a half..which is not bad (and it was all free?)..but so strange that it's all airport based. The airport is MASSIVE!!!!
The first thing we did downtown was go to JFK's memorial, which was in the centre of the town..see the pic above.
It's a great big white four walled building with a plaque in the centre..and feels quite peaceful when you enter it...
We decided to go to the museum that the tourist centre said was a good tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy...
And it was.....
Very revealing to us as well. I was one when JFK was shot, and Greg was 7. So we don't remember the event..but at the museum, called the Sixth Floor Museum JFK's whole life was shown. We were there for over two hours.
The video footage of his campaigns, his life, his family..and all the photos and newspaper articles and witness accounts of 22n November 1963, the day he was assasinated by Lee Harvey Oswald was on show as well.
There were photos and videos of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby as well.
Very compelling..and poignant...it was very evident he was loved by everyone.
We took pics of the spot on the road..which is marked by a huge white cross.
And after....we felt still..and reflective. It's always a reminder of our own mortality to see this type of thing...
This is the 6th Floor Museum which is where Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal shot. See 6th floor to the right corner window of pic..
Dallas...is a funny place.
Full of African Americans..(who are so friendly) but it's deserted...we wonder where everyone is.....the streets are big..the expanses of land are large...but it's dead. The city seems neglected somehow.
There are a few space age looking skyrise buildings in the main street..but the focus of the town is JFK's memorial and museum....
JR Ewing has a house people visit but that's way out of town...and too far when you don't have a car..and public transport is practically non existant!
Anyway....talking about public transport..we're off to Memphis..on the bus..overnight! YUK
Will let you know if we survive it!
Okies....now, before we go, we're going to look over this huge library...8 floors..and full of people NOT READING..but USING THE INTERNET!
haha
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