Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Hill Country
About 1 ½ hours north of San Antonio is the town of Fredericksburg. It is a popular destination this time of year for viewing wild flowers. Texas does not mow the sides of highways and roads during wild flower season promoting glorious shows of colour. Unfortunately, the show is expected to be poor due to the drought — hopefully Ed will still get some good photos.
Admiral Nimitz of World War II Pacific Combat Zone fame was born in Fredericksburg and to honor him the National Museum of the Pacific War was located here. The museum has several exhibits one of which is called the Pacific Combat Zone. This exhibit shows the museum’s large artifacts in unique environments such as an invasion beach with landing craft and artillery, a field hospital in a Quonset hut, etc.
We are staying at the Ladybird Johnson Municipal Park just outside of Fredericksburg. The park is quite large as it not only houses the trailer park but also a golf course, 2 baseball diamonds, tennis courts, swimming pools and large picnic areas. Zaph loves it as there are lots of places to play ball.
A WWII Bomber
A PT boat --- one of only a few in existance
A Japanese tank
One of the display areas in the museum
The super structure off of a ship and an anti-aircraft gun --- displays outside of the museum.
Admiral Nimitz of World War II Pacific Combat Zone fame was born in Fredericksburg and to honor him the National Museum of the Pacific War was located here. The museum has several exhibits one of which is called the Pacific Combat Zone. This exhibit shows the museum’s large artifacts in unique environments such as an invasion beach with landing craft and artillery, a field hospital in a Quonset hut, etc.
We are staying at the Ladybird Johnson Municipal Park just outside of Fredericksburg. The park is quite large as it not only houses the trailer park but also a golf course, 2 baseball diamonds, tennis courts, swimming pools and large picnic areas. Zaph loves it as there are lots of places to play ball.
A WWII Bomber
A PT boat --- one of only a few in existance
A Japanese tank
One of the display areas in the museum
The super structure off of a ship and an anti-aircraft gun --- displays outside of the museum.
If you wish you can sign our guest book
We have added a web page with a map of our current location and route to date