Well, we arrived home on Friday August 20th at 1:30 p.m. It is good to be here. We had an amazing vacation, traveling through 14 states, over 7,000 miles, saw seven Presidential Libraries of Ronald Reagan (and his ranch center) in California, (We had our picture taken there boarding Air Force 1), Richard Nixon in California, George Herbert Walker Bush, in Texas (one of the best, we had our photo taken there in the oval office at the desk), Lyndon Baines Johnson in Texas (the other best), William Jefferson Clinton in Arkansas, James Earl Carter in Georgia, and Dwight David Eisenhower in Kansas. In addition to the beautiful country we have here in America, which is beyond belief in many cases, and certainly there is a lot of room left for legal immigrants, we saw the following: Walt Disney Family Center and George Lucas Museum at the Presidio in San Francisco, not to be confused with the same address on Montgomery street downtown SF, The Mission Santa Ines, Sonny Bono Salton Sea Museum, White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, White Sands National Monument, Roswell New Mexico Alien Museum (they landed there in 1947), the 6th floor Book Depository Museum and grassy knoll site in Dallas Texas, (the spot where JFK is shot in the street is marked with an X), the 400+ mile long Natchez Trace Parkway which is beautiful and marked along the way with historical markers, through Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, (we didn't get into Tennessee), Mt. Locust Inn and Plantation Museum, the Elvis Presley birthplace Museum and home in Tupelo, Missisippi, the natural Stone Bridge of Alabama monument site, the Houston historic jail from the Civil War on highway I-65 in Alabama, the Sacred Heart Church in Cullman Arizona, The Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman, downtown Hogansville in Georgia, the Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum in Goessel Kansas, the Cathedral of the Plains also known as St. Fidelis Catholic Church and the monument to the Germans who built it across the street in Victoria Kansas, and the United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs. We attended mass at four beautiful churches, ate twice at those wonderful restaurants known as Cracker Barrel, and stayed in various motels along the way, some of which were fabulous (La Quinta) and some which left a bit to be desired. Average cost per stay per night was about $70.00. Gas prices hovered around $2.65 per gallon. We made two scrap books full of memorabilia.
NOTE: There are five other Presidential Libraries, we have seen three of them --JFK in Boston, FDR in Hyde Park NY, HST in Independence Mo. We did not get to Michigan to see Gerald Ford's two sites, or to Iowa to see Hoover's. The weather in Iowa was flooding the towns and Ed did not want to drive there. The weather was for the most part HOT and HUMID. Especially in Galveston Texas (the very worst, when you went outside your glasses fogged up). We had it rain, thunder, and lightening on several occasions, which we loved as we don't get that often here in California. All in all, it was an awesome time. As always, glad to be home.
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