April 1, On to Austin, via Johnson City

At 8:00, it was overcast, humid and 20C, as we hit the road.

By 9:40, we arrived in Johnson City, found the Visitor Centre and watched a movie about LBJ.

Went on a Ranger-led tour of Lyndon Johnson's boyhood home.






We left the RV's in the parking lot & took the car to Stonewall where the Lyndon B. Johnson State Park & National Historical Park are located. www.nps.gov/lyjo
There, we signed up for a self-guided driving tour of the LBJ Ranch.

We stopped at the Junction School, a one-room school that LBJ attended at age 4.

Included in the tour was the reconstructed birthplace, the Johnson family cemetary, where he is buried, and the "Texas Whitehouse" and Hangar.

This is the Texas Whitehouse, where a lot of meetings and business was conducted during Johnson's Presidency.
We toured the home, which has been restored to its 1963 - 1968 appearance.

The hangar houses LBJ's personal plane, a Jet Star, which he used to commute to & from Washington DC.





Following the tour, we returned to Johnson City and our rigs. The temperature was a humid 31C.

The Bluebonnets are in full bloom as are other flowers.







Off we went to Oak Forest RV Park in Austin. As we pulled in, who should walk up, but Jeanette & Ted Lloyd, a couple we toured Alaska with in 2006! They are on their way home to Tottenham after spending the winter in the Rio Grande Valley. What are the odds??????