Today, the challenge is to write something interesting about a tourist trap near me that I’ve never gotten around to visiting. First, I need to make a confession. Not only have I never taken the time to “experience” the “attraction” I will talk about, I never will.

Why, you ask? The answer is both simple and complex. First, if you look up attractions in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, one of the tourist draws with multiple variations and adaptations involves the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

I do not need to visit the book depository, the grassy knoll, or any of the other areas the travel industry promotes. I lived through the entire experience as a senior in high school. With a father in the news business and contacts in law enforcement, we got all the information, rumors, accusations, whatever before they made the television screen or the radio in some instances.

I have driven past the site of the assassination hundreds of times in the intervening years. Never once have I stopped to walk around or take pictures. I am not interested in playing tourist at a historical site like that.

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