Drove to College Station thru fields of grain..a bit of corn and soy and unlimited areas of pasture dotted with cattle...and the prominent oil well pumps....I imagine that the farmers who had these oil well blemishes on their fields of green are supplementi9ng their income handsomely...especially since I have been motoring for these great distances!....
The Bushy 41 Museum was shocking when we first saw it..It is absolutely the largest one we have visited so nfar...and it is beautifully positioned on the Campus of Texas A & M...but...when we entered we were dismayed to learn that the Museum was virtually closed to undergo a $15,000,0000 renovation!...all the contents had been waqrehoused...and after walking thru the lobby and a few of the adjacent rooms we nfound it difficult to imagine what more could be done to enhance the building...but ...it was the fact...It is scheduled to reopen in November 2007..
However, we were fortunate enough to view a wonderful biography of the President in the Movie house and I was able to take some very interesting pictures...one of which was an original oil painting of Presidents #41 1nd #43 in the same picture...being the only one ever painted of a President and his son who was also a President!...and of course several more very useful books were purchased!
We then walked on a cement path behind the museum and around an attraqctive pond which was evidently stocked with fish since there was signage that if any fish were caught with non-barbed hooks they must be released....and completing the walk which wound thru a forested area for about a 1/4 of a mile, I came upon the fenced in plot of grass with stone pillars indicating the names of both Barbara and George and their birth dates...This is to be the site of their burial after their demise...and there was a small horizontal stone marking the grave of their liitle girl who had died as a small child..
The weather was bright and sunny and hot...about 90...and we set the GPS for Austin and took off...with the windows wide open and sailing thru the farmland with the wind blowing on our faces...we were entranced...It was a fantastic feeling where at one time, Daras remarked "that if I lived around here" I would like to own a truck"! Is that what a little Jewish girl from Camden, NJ would be expected to say??? At any rate, we drove into Austin..made reservations for our stay at the Hilton Airport hotel for Monday nite...and we are to fly to LA on Tuesday AM...returning on Thursday nite to stay in the same hotel....We then were directed to Joes Shrimp restaurant where we had a dinner of....shrimp, of course!...We left again since it was still light out and headed for Johnson City where we expected to visit President Johnson's Ranch...and anticipated locating a motel enroute...but...we had to drive all the way to Johnson City before we found the first one!..Fortunately it was a suitable one....The drive this time was thru and up and down what is referred to as the Hill Country...and it certainly was...the vistas we saw from the top of the hills was spectacular so the time went by rapidly...TomorrowH AM we visit the Ranch....Yippie-I -O H ( Cowboy term!)
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