First Night Blues

Train arrived an hour and a half late. We left Minot at 11:20. I was already in a bad mood because the twins lost. I took some time to solve a puzzle out of Minot Daily News. The I went to sleep.. But not for long. A man sitting one row ahead an across the aisle started acting up. I could not tell if he was on his phone or was hearing voices or was engaged in a ranting soliloquy. He was mad at somebody—loud with a great deal of swearing.
Other passengers got scared and fled to the club car. I stayed for about a half hour. Two conductors came but he just kept on. It was him and a conductor and me. She got on her phone I heard her say something about police, so I headed for the club car. The train stopped at Lakota. Two sheriffs deputies took him off thre train in hand cuffs. We watched from the club car as they took him away.
Most of the other passengers we’re laughing and making snide remarks about the guy. To me it was sad. He obviously had issues, either drug related or otherwise. By the time all the excitement was over the train was running two hours late. I have a four hour layover in Chicago. Half that is gone. I hope there are no more delays. Now I can’t sleep. Time for another puzzle.

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Highways

I find it interesting to come across a highway number down here that is the same as a highway number up in our neck of the woods. Yesterday, we spent some time on Highway 281, which is the same U.S. highway that goes through Jamestown and crosses Highway 2 at Churches Ferry. I-35 splits into I-35 W and I-35 E as it passes through Ft. Worth and Dallas, just as it does in the Twin Cities. Many years ago in North Carolina, I was on U. S. 52, which runs from Portal SE across America, sometimes disappearing for hundreds of miles, swallowed up by highways that get more respect. On the way down here we crossed U. S. 30, which is known as the Lincoln Highway out east because it passes through Gettysburg and Northern Illinois. I don’t know who devised the U.S. highway system, but they made it interesting.

The Bush Gravesite

We parked on the west side of the Bush library in College Station, TX, the home of Texas A&M. Then we walked around to the east side of the library to this beautiful pond. The grave site is through the trees on the other side of the pond. Ruth looking across the pond toward the gate and path to the grave site. Next to the library stood this statue of these horses jumping over a wall. The wall was an actual section of the Berlin Wall that came down during Bush’s term. Bush’s grave in center. Barbara’s is on the right. Their daughter Robin is buried to the left out of the picture. The grounds are large and beautiful. It was a picturesque half mile walk from the car to the grave site. We pretty much had the place to ourselves except for a kid on an electric skateboard.

President's Graves

On this trip with David we are going to visit the graves of five Presidents. One of the greatest, George Washington at Mount Vernon. One of the worst, James Buchanan at Lancaster, PA. Three in the middle. Woodrow Wilson at the National Cathedral in Washington. John Kennedy and Howard Taft at Arlington Cemetary in Virginia. The two most impressive Presidential graves I have been to are Lincoln's in Springfield, IL, and Grant's in New York City. I have been to 17 of the 39 Presidential graves. Most of them are very humble. many are located in regular cemetaries. Their grave stones are less remarkable than many others in the same cemetary. I found this to be true of Buchanan's in Lancaster and Tyler's in Richmond. Many are buried at their Presidential libraries, such as Hoover and Truman. Some are buried at their homes, such as Washington, Jefferson, and FDR. I think Lin...

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