Happy Easter from Texas

Happy Easter from Texas. Hope you enjoy the flowers.

A few things we skipped in our last update. We met David and Penne Morton. They sat at our table at the 4 o’clock social. Linda recognized then from one of the rallies we attended in Wooster Ohio 2 years previous. It so happens they are going to Alaska this year. So we exchanged emails and phone numbers and hope to meet up on the road. We also met Mark and Nancy Vojtek our adopted kids from Chapter 36. They where working serving dinner at the C.A.R.E Center. They volunteered for a month at C.A.R.E. We also met Lee and Marsha Squires who volunteered when we did. What a small world. Received a few emails asking what C.A.R.E. stands for. It is Continuing Assistance's for Retired Escapees. See at http://www.escapeescare.org/


On the 6th we left Livingston and arrived at Somerville Lake and the Corp of Engineers Yegua Creek RV Park. We got a waterfront site. It was the only non- reserveable site left. It turned out to be a super site. But as usual bad weather follows us. We had 20-30 mph winds The Lake looked like the ocean with white-capped waves. They that night they set a record low of 26. The next day it was 78. Its been 75-85 the passed couple of days.

On Tuesday we toured the Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham. http://www.bluebell.com/ It was a great tour and we did get to sample ice cream at the end. They are the number 3 producer of ice cream in the US. Next we went to the Burton Cotton Gin and Museum, http://www.cottonginmuseum.org/ . It is the oldest operating Gin in America. What a fascinating and educational presentation. The US is number 3 in cotton production and Texas is the number one state for growing cotton. China and India are 1 and 2. So much of the cotton grown here is shipped over seas to make the shirts and jeans we wear. Dosen’t that make you fell all warm and fuzzy about buying imports? The motor was build in PA. Thats a 500 pound bale. See what can be made from that bale.

The Cotton Gin

The Wildflowers are just spectacular. Everywhere you drive in the area they are at their height of bloom. This is the second time we saw the wildflowers of TX and its great.
On Wednesday we went to College Station TX to tour the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ That’s George H.. It is at Texas A&M University.
The campus of TX A&M is over 5000 acres, plus many acres of research outside of town. They have about 48000 students and 2800 faculty members. Its a large college.




George Bushes office at Camp David. The situation room.













Kyle Stadium at Texas A&M

We then went to Independence. http://www.independencetx.com/ This is the original site of Baylor College, now Baylor University in Waco TX. It’s also the site of Sam Houston’s home site. We also toured the Independence Baptist Church, the oldest continuously active Baptist church in TX. There is also a Bethlehem Lutheran Church here.

Original lighting.Columns are ruins of Baylor Female Building.

A couple of neat trees. Click on pictures to enlarge.