We have stayed in the park yesterday and plan to today. We just aren't getting better from these colds. Of course when you have two people ill, one feels better today, the other doesn't. Hopefully we can finish our sightseeing in San Antonio tomorrow, or it will be put off until another year. We leave here Sunday for Houston.
I hadn't mentioned that in the area we are in is a lot of Hunting Preserves and Dude Ranches. You can tell the hunting preserves with the tall fences along the roadside. The one next door to the campground has a website I found -- www.medinariverranchresort.com. Could not believe what people pay to shoot these animals. They have all kinds of animals too.
A comment about President Johnson's Ranch. The Ranger was showing us just inside his backdoor he had a refrigerate tapper for beer. Anyone stopping in knew to come through the back door and get yourself a beer and then find them in the house. He said the people on the tour told him when leaving, I really never care for President Johnson, but now I think with the tapper I'll change my mind. LOL --- Bob & I thought it was funny, because when we decided to go see his ranch, we said we never liked him -- but lets see what the ranch and house was like. We have visited different presidents homes in the past.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
We toured the LBJ National Park and Ranch. It was an interesting tour of the "Texas White House". The rangers give the tour and there comments are very interesting. He mentioned that Lady Bird didn't like the cattle part of the ranch, so when he died she sold off the cattle. The National Parks bought about 50 of them so the cattle on the ranch have the blood line from his cattle.
He also mention that she had asked the President if they could take out the tile floor in the dining room and put in a wooden floor. He said he didn't want to spend the money and the floor was fine. Ok, he died, and she changed it.
The family cementary is located here. This is where both President and Mrs. Johnson is buried. Their girls live in Austin Tx (Lucie), and Virginia (Lynda). About two or three times a month Lucie stops into the home. She brought back a big setting of china just awhile back and also gave her parents piano back to the home, as long as she could stop in and play in once in awhile.
He also mention that she had asked the President if they could take out the tile floor in the dining room and put in a wooden floor. He said he didn't want to spend the money and the floor was fine. Ok, he died, and she changed it.
The family cementary is located here. This is where both President and Mrs. Johnson is buried. Their girls live in Austin Tx (Lucie), and Virginia (Lynda). About two or three times a month Lucie stops into the home. She brought back a big setting of china just awhile back and also gave her parents piano back to the home, as long as she could stop in and play in once in awhile.
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