On the way we stopped at the LBJ Ranch - home of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th president of the USA. When we registered at the visitors center, the ranger asked where we were from. When we said Pittsburgh, he said he was from West Virginia. We asked where in West Virginia and he said Keyser (Hello, Nancy and Dave!) Then the woman behind the desk said "Hey, I'm from Charleston, West Virginia!" Poppa said he lived there when he was my age. Quite the little reunion!
Here are some of the cattle on the LBJ ranch:
Poppa says many of LBJ's speeches were full of a by-product of these cattle, whatever that means. On a kinder note, LBJ was dedicated to education, calling it the only path out of poverty.
We thought Nana was bringing work with her when we saw this bus:
Nana's psychology practice is The Creative Learning Center; this bus was from The Center for Creative Living School.
O.K. - another reunion when we got to the campground in Fredericksburg. Poppa saw a motorhome with license plates from Indiana. He told the owner we had just been in Richmond, Indiana visiting Nana's mother. The man said his daughter is on the city council there. We didn't get her name, but it's either Misty Hollis or Kathy Cruse-Nicholson.
Fredericksburg is an interesting little town settled by Germans in 1846. There lots of tourist shops, but the more interesting part is some of the neat stone buildings.
We went to a brew house for a light lunch:
Then we went for a hike at Enchanted Rock to work off the lunch:
I got stuck once:
We saw some cattle with really big horns:
Time for dinner and "Dancing with the Stars". Tomorrow we'll stop again if Fredericksburg to visit a museum before we head for Fort Stockton, Texas.
Posted from Nana's iPad
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