Flickr photos can be found here.The vacation started on 17 April with 1/2 day devoted to travel to Little Rock. We visited the state capitol and the Clinton Presidential Library. We then headed to Hot Springs where Clinton went to high school. The next day included a stop over in Hope to see the Clinton birthplace and the boyhood home. The Sixth Floor museum the in the School Depository building in Dallas was a memory generator with many exhibits and videos and being able to actual see the Oswald position where he fired the weapon that killed Kennedy. Fort Worth Historic Stockyards were next on the agenda along with the Almon Carter museum which houses the world's best collection of Frederick Remington and Charles Russell western art pieces. A trip through a rural wasteland put us at the George H.W. Bush Library in College Station. Easily the best one of the three libraries, his full life of military service, CIA directorship and off course as president during the popular Gulf War was on full display. A quick jaunt to Austin placed us at the LBJ library, the least interesting of the three. We had lived much of this and frankly with his many social programs and the Vietnam War many different opinions exists regarding his presidency. We also visited the state capitol (or capital as they spell it in Texas). The next day found us in Johnson City at his boyhood home and later at the ranch. This was a disappointment especially since it is designated as a NPS Historic Site. However, we really liked the Wildseed Farms, Luchenbach and Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country. We also journeyed through the Cowboy Capital, Bandera before taking in the sites in San Antonio, highlighted by the Mission Trail and the Riverwalk.
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