LBJ Ranch

We left San Antonio, and headed up to Johnson City, to visit the Lyndon B Johnson NHP. It was too late to visit his ranch, located about 15 miles west of town, but we were able to tour his boyhood home, watch a film about his Presidency, and look around the Visitor Center. By then it was 5 pm, so we found a nearby RV park to spend the night. Johnson City was named after an ancestor of LBJ's.We headed west out of Johnson City to LBJ's ranch this morning. The weather was getting darker, wetter, and windier. LBJ had been born on the ranch, but his family moved into town when he was a boy. After he became a Senator, he bought it back from his aunt, and while he was President, it became the Texas White House. The kids turned in their Jr Ranger programs, looked at the exhibits, and watched a movie in which LBJ recalled growing up in the Hill Country of Texas, and showed off his ranch.

We then headed back east and drove to Austin, where we stopped at a Sam's Club for provisions. Austin had the same kind of freeway configurations as San Antonio, and it took me a while to figure out how to get to the Sam's Club. While we were inside, the rain started coming down hard. After fighting afternoon traffic, we headed southeast out of town. The wind and rain continued, hard at times, and there was a lot of thunder and lightning. We didn't make as good as time as I hoped, and finally stopped for the night in Katy, TX, about a half hour west of Houston.