A weekend in Texas - February 28-29, 2004
Saturday the 28th found me returning to San Antonio to find some "lost
freight" that was not picked up by FedEx at the Convention Center. After the
"package" was finally found, then delivered to the FedEx office near the
airport, I went back to Round Rock to have dinner with my son and his family. You
can see my grandson Ian below and my son in the background. Amazing about the timing
of his blink and the flash of the camera.
On Sunday, February 29th, I headed for home via Waco, Dallas, etc. I saw some interesting things along the way. Here are the pictures.
I have been on the road for business trips for over 30 years. I have seen
a number of 18-wheelers with the sign "Truckin' for Jesus" on them, but this is
the first time I have seen a church on wheels. This was located at exit 359 on
Interstate 35 in Texas.
I also had a chance to do some antique hunting. One of the places I
stopped was in Hillsboro, Texas. The Hill County court house is one of the best
looking that I have ever seen. It is of course on the town square. The weather
cleared just as I got to Hillsboro.
And after all these years, I finally went to Dealey Plaza
in Dallas. You can see the open window on the sixth floor of the old Texas School
Book Depository building. There is a web cam perched up there that you can find
online by doing a search on Google for "Dealey Plaza".
You can see the web cam in this zoomed picture.
This is the view from the "Badge Man" location behind the wood fence
on the grassy knoll. Notice how the tourists have all gravitated to the spot.
And yes, there is an "X" to mark the spot of the fatal shot that killed
JFK. I personally feel the fatal head shot came from where I took this
picture.
I was appalled by the fact that these three French tourists each took turns
standing on the "X" to have their pictures taken when traffic was not passing by
the location.
There is a plaque on the ground placed there in 1993 marking this location as
an historic site. I am standing on the grassy knoll where the Zapruder film was
taken on that day in 1963.
In one of the History Channel documentaries, this storm drain was also
mentioned as a possible assassin location. There is more asphalt there today than
was there in 1963 due to street repaving in the years since then.
The trees are bigger now, but the scene still is haunting with the sixth-floor
window visible in this photo.
It was a day with mixed emotions. There were street vendors selling JFK souveniers and telling the story at various places along this street.