"Look at the silly, sloppy look on his face." - Stan Laurel, "Swiss Miss"
By Thursday, April 3, 2008, Bob and I had completely butchered our Texas itinerary - but in a good way. Somehow our wrong turn earlier in the week had forced us to redefine our plan of action and we were way ahead of schedule. Thursday had been slated for a day in Austin, which we had completed […]
I had thought that the weather was conspiring against me until Saturday, May 24, the kickoff to Memorial Day weekend. The weather suddenly became beautiful and warm and sparkly. For some reason that I cannot explain though, after plans fell through to meet up with an old friend, I made my weekly afternoon trip to the […]
I didn’t know a lot about John Nance Garner except that he had once been the Vice-President of the United States. Our first stop of the morning of Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - and in fact the reason that we had stayed the night in Uvalde, Texas - was to see the grave and former […]
Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower most certainly rose to power as our nation’s 34th United States President from 1953-1961 due to his exemplary military record. He had served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and had planned and supervised our invasion of France and Germany, effectively forcing Germany to surrender. As President […]
Bob and I awoke on the morning of Tuesday, April 1 (he wished me happy birthday) in Kerrville, Texas at the Whitten Inn. This was not our intended destination, but because we had taken the wrong turning in San Antonio, this is where we parked ourselves and I immediately plotted our substitute course. It started […]