Days 3,4and 5

January 5, 2011

We are in San Angelo State Park. Our GPS didn't
find the park so we had to find it the old way.

We've been on the road since the 3rd and not made
great time, but then we don't have a schedule.
We got up very late this morning so really only
had a half a day on the road. Didn't stop at
any place special.

We have tried to see the Sand Creek Massacre
National Monument, but it was closed. We
went on to Palo Duro Canyon Park, but it, too,
was closed. We ended up last night in a commercial
RV park, arriving about 8 PM. By the time we
finished dinner it was well after 9...and so
it goes.

This seems like a very nice park and hopefully
we'll spend some time here.

January 7, 2011

We have spent 2 days here in Johnson City. The
weather is fine and there is so much history that
it takes a while to get through it all.

Yesterday we visited Johnson's home where the
family moved to when he was 5. It was a very
small three bedroom, one bath house..Actually,
there was a tub room for baths, but the actual
toilet was out back, way out back at the far
corner of the lot. Johnson had 4 siblings and
he was the eldest of the lot. The three girls
slept in one bedroom and the two boys in another
and the parents in the third.

In the evening we ate at a Mexican restaurant
across the street from the RV park we are in.

Today the weather is even milder, about 70, and
partially sunny. We went out to JBL's ranch and
Texas White House. The ranch is still a working
ranch so we saw sheep and cattle. Also, antelope
and a very small deer. The tiny deer had gotten
itself caught in a corner near the road and was
so traumatized by each passing auto that it
couldn't figure out how to get out of the corner.

It is amazing the number of things that LBJ
accomplished. I, because of the Viet Nam War,
had forgotten many of the things that he did;
Head Start, Civil Rights, Medicare/Medicaid to
name only three of the hundreds of bills he
entered as a member of the Senate and managed
to get past. All the things Kennedy talked of,
LBJ accomplished. It's a shame the Military
bamboozled him into escalating the war. Sadly
I think Obama is going the same way and may
only be a one-term president.

It is supposed to get cold here in the next couple
of days so we'll be running along in the morning
and hoping to make better time than we have so far.
It has been fine to just mosey along.