George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum – 4/9

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George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas.

Lots of stuff about Texas A&M on display. This is the first Heisman Trophy I have seen in person. Cool!
Presidential Limo.
A TBM Avenger. This is the type of aircraft President Bush flew in WWII.
The Naval aviator sidearm, a 38 caliber Smith & Wesson Special CG, was used by George H.W. Bush in WWII.
Aside from bullets, it could fire a special pyrotechnic signal round.

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Brazos Valley Museum of Natural Hostory – 4/6

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Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History
I don’t know which one scares me more!
I guess these are/were native to this area?
I’m not sure how I feel about this exhibit!
General Antonio López de Santa Anna. Santa Anna’s valuable personal effects were taken as spoils of war, including
his silver. The two pieces of his silverware displayed here, a massive dessert fork and spoon, were sent to Joanna
Troutman, maker and designer of the Troutman Goliad flag, an important flag in the Texas independence movement.
My favorite exhibit! I would love to have any of these. But my absolute favorite is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10.

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Choke Canyon State Park, Texas – 4/1/24

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Here’s our spot at Choke Canyon State Park. We arrived March 31st. We’ll be here for 5 nights. It’s very quiet and peaceful. Lots of space!

Cinder soaking up the sun.
A country church on our drive to Choke Canyon State Park.
View looking behind our trailer. My trusted Starlink set up and working perfectly!
Another view looking west of our trailer. There is a wild pig in this picture, but it’s hard to see.
Just thought it was a cool tree.
They have a nice pavilion overlooking the lake.
Well that’ll get your attention!

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1015 Onion Festival in Weslaco, TX 3/23

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The 1015 Onion Festival is celebrated every year here. These onions are real sweet and locals will eat them raw or cooked. The name, I was told, references the date to plant the onions.
This is the free bag of onions line!
Mary keeps running in to this old guy and wants a picture of him just in case we need to ID him.
There was a car show going on too! Cool looking RatRod.
I think this is a 52 Chevy. Love the suicide doors!
64 Corvette
Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. Model year, unknown.

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Port of Brownsville Tour

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Port of Isabell Light House.
On our tour boat. Didn’t see anyone else going out on the front of the boat.
Took this picture from the front of our tour boat looking back. Kinda hard to do without holding on to something.
The bridge to South Padre Island.
They have a door to the Port of Brownsville. I guess you can’t get it without your FOB!
Bird sanctuary island. No people allowed.
Another picture of the bird sanctuary island. You can see the birds.
Dry docked shrimp boat being worked on.
Docked shrimp boats. This is shrimp season but diesel fuel to too costly for the boats to to go out and fish. Our guide said it costs about $75,000 to fill the fuel tanks!
Ship waiting to be demo’d. Recycling ships is a big business in Brownsville.
This will be SpaceX’s sea going mobile launch platform. Starbase is just a few miles from here. I could see the Starships, the launch pad and buildings but they were too far off for pictures.
Construction of an off-shore drilling platform.
This is a sea going barge. It is designed to be pushed or pulled by a tug boat in open waters. If the need arises, the tug boat can switch from pushing to pulling the barge in open waters.
Another picture of the barge.

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Workout Room

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Started going to the workout room about 2 weeks ago. Go most days for about 45 minutes. There are a couple of treadmills, dumbbells (not including me), bicycle machine, stair machine and a few other benches for exercising.

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