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.
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.
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