John dwarfed by the Kennedy memorial around the corner from the site of the president's assassination.
Kennedy memorial.
Elm St, the infamous grassy knoll on the left and the Book Depository on the right. The interesting museum fills the sixth floor and the window where Oswald sat (second from the top on the far right) has been recreated to look exactly as it did in 1963.We also managed to sit in on a Q and A session with the curator of the museum who was discussing the various conspiracy theories. Interestingly he thinks that there was another gunman on the grassy knoll, but doesn't have enough evidence to prove it.
Elm St and the Book Depository. If you look closely toward the left of the photo there is an 'X' on the road that marks the exact spot where JFK was shot.
From Dallas we drove a short 30 miles to Fort Worth, a country town in complete contrast to its city slicker neighbour.
Twice a day cowboys on horseback drive a small herd of Texas longhorns down the middle of the street.
We went to a rodeo at the Cowtown Coliseum.
From Fort Worth we drove to Austin, an eclectic city known for its live music scene and strangely enough, its bat population. The photo of the Austin skyline above was taken from the city's Congress Avenue Bridge, which is home to 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats.
At dusk the bats swarm out from their roost on a platform beneath the bridge to get dinner (hence helping to control the insect population in Austin). It's a pretty amazing sight and you can kind of see in the photo above the bats over the lake and a swarm of them to the right of the building in the distance.
The latest food trend in Austin is the trailer food court - a convoy of caravans lined up in south Austin lots selling crepes, tacos, pizza, cupcakes, hotdogs etc etc).
Of course Texas is cowboy country too! Plenty of hat and boots shops to browse around.
From Austin we took a daytrip to San Antonio. Above is the colourful Mexican market in the city.
The pretty tree-shaded Riverwalk in San Antonio, housing buzzing restaurants and bars along the sides of a canal that was created for flood control in the 1920s.
San Antonio is also home to the Alamo. A few wall fragments and the mission church (in the photo above) are all that remain of the original structure of this iconic American building. In 1836 the Mexican general Santa Anna laid a 13-day siege to the fort occupied by the Texans. He then attacked and killed most of the Alamo defenders.As you can tell from John's face in the photo, Texas was HOT! The temperature hit 30 degrees most days so we are looking forward to some cooler weather after a quick flight from Austin to Denver, Colorado - our next port of call.
2 comments:
Would have been interesting at the Book Depository. The pictures look exactly the same as from my conspiracy book at home if you can remember them.
Keep well
Mum and Dad
haha that book is the only reason i wanted to go there!! was thinking you would have enjoyed it, especially the q&a session we stumbled upon - lots of conspiracy theory enthusiasts there.
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