As a lifelong fan of Country Music legend Jim Reeves, Gerry persuaded Sue to take the opportunity to visit a small town in East Texas called
Carthage, where Jim Reeves grew up and where a monument has been erected over his grave site. (He died in a ‘plane crash in 1964). We flew from
Nashville to
Shreveport,
Louisiana, and then drove a little over an hour across the state border to
Carthage where we stopped at the monument just outside of town. We stayed in
Carthage overnight and also visited the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame the next day, before driving to
Dallas –
Fort Worth airport to catch a ‘plane back to
Los Angeles for our connecting Qantas flight back home. Of interest was that
Carthage is in
Panola County which is a “dry” county – there is no sale of alcohol in the county, so no margaritas that night. Before flying out of LA, we met up for a meal with our eldest daughter, Michelle and her partner Anthony, who had just arrived that day for a 4 week holiday in the USA and Mexico. We spent a day in
Melbourne on our return before flying back to
Perth for a well-earned rest after our adventurous holiday.
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| The Jim Reeves Memorial |
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