Presidential Museum Trip Day 3 -- September 10, 2009

Our third day of travel started at the Texarkana Post Office, which sits in two different states with two different zip codes. Bernie told us that this particular Post Office is the most-photographed of all in the USA.

After a quick photo, we boarded the charter coach for Longview, Texas, the home of LeTourneau University. R. G. LeTourneau was a very talented inventor who developed new ways to move earth. At one time, he had a factory in Peoria, Illinois in the spot where Komatsu now stands. We learned that, in spite of LeTourneau's lack of a formal education, he was quite an accomplished engineer. So what was the connection to our learning about the presidents? Zapata, George H. W. Bush's oil company, funded the manufacturing of LeTourneau's moveable oil platform, an invention that is still in use today.

After a delicious lunch at McKay's Ranch House in Longview, we headed off to Kilgore, Texas, home of the East Texas Oil Museum and the home of the "Rangerettes." Our group split up, and half went to learn about oil while the rest went to learn about high kicks!

After driving from Texarkana, Arkansas to College Station, Texas, we enjoyed a delicious dinner at Luigi's Patio Ristorante and settled in for a good night's sleep at our hotel.