Ramblings From A Full-time RVer: Bryan-College Station TX

The George Bush Presidential Library & Museum

The library and museum document the lives of George H and Barbara Bush. Pictures and stories about each of their childhoods as they grew up. Their wedding, his military service, raising their family of two sons and the loss of their three year old daughter to Leukemia. His career in the oil field in Midland, Texas.

George Bush’s political life including a replica of the Oval Office.

And of the State Dinning Room.

As I was wondering through the exhibits, one of the guides told this story: Do you see the small gold bowls on the table? He had ask many people as they came through, how they thought the bowls were used. Most guessed either finger bowls (much too small), bowls for salt (no small spoons for salt) or possibly for butter.
One day a couple strolled into the exhibit, the gentleman came in first. The guide said to him, I’ll ask your wife if she can identify the use for the gold bowls. The man turned to the guide and said “they are used for mints”. The guide wanted to know how the man knew the answer. “Because,” he said,” I was in the Navy and that is how a formal dining table is set.”

The the Presidential Limousine

A sculpture of the President
I saw several people in the chairs beside the sculpture checking their phones.

This library and museum will give anyone visiting a wonderful lesson in our history.

There are so many more things to see in this area, but once again, I am out of time. Tomorrow it will be the day to pack up. Monday I'll hitch the truck to the fifth wheel for the next stop on this adventure.

Texas A&M University

On January 1922 when A&M played Center College. The coach reached deep into his reserves and called E King Gill, a former football player, now basketball player down from the stands. When the game was over Gill was the only man left standing on the Aggie sideline.

Since Gill stood ready to play if the eleven man team needed him, he is remembered as the Twelfth Man. That started the tradition of the entire student body standing during the whole game, ready to be called on if needed. For more information on TX A&M: www.tamu.edu

In the background of the photo is the banner Texas A&M Football Home of The 12th Man.

Historic Bryan, Texas

Founded in 1869, The Houston and Texas Central (H&TC) Railroad Co arrived in 1860. Rich farmland surrounded Bryan and the railroad became an important ingredient in its growth.

In 1876, The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, which later became known as Texas A&M, was established in College Station in 1876, just four miles down the road from Bryan.

The city had a population of 76,201 in 2010 and the metro Bryan-College Station area had around 190,000 people. The renovated historic downtown Byron has grown from the original square-mile townsite to encompassing more than 43.4 square miles.