Tyler, Texas

It is 75º here in Tyler, TX where we are at a Passport America RV Park for the night.  Was in the middle 80's during the day -- going to have to get back into short pants!

We left Little Rock shortly after 8 am and stopped in Hope, Arkansas for several hours.

This is the passenger station (Now serves Amtrak) in Hope
and is also a Visitor's Center for Hope and for life of
Bill Clinton, 42nd President who was born in Hope in August 19, 1946

This is under the National Park Service CLICK HERE for website

and this Park Ranger gave a tour of the house.

Born William Jefferson Blythe, III, he lived in this house for 4 years, then in another house in Hope and moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas where he graduated from school.

  We left Hope, AR just after 12 noon and drove the 170 miles to The Brookshire Museum  in Tyler, TX.  They close at 4:00 pm and we got there about 10 minutes after 3 so had a while.  "One of the most popular attractions in East Texas, Brookshire’s World of Wildlife Museum and Country Store offers a fun and educational adventure– for free! Life-sized replicas of a mother elephant and her two babies, along with a mother rhino, her baby and a giraffe, greet visitors at the entrance of Brookshire’s World of Wildlife Museum and Country Store. Inside this unique museum, more than 450 mammals, reptiles, fowl and aquatic species from Africa and North America are on display. The museum contains spectacular, realistic wildlife dioramas with educational information included for each of the animals. A visit to the Brookshire’s Country Store gives museum guests a nostalgic look at yesteryear by displaying grocery items from the 1920’s. Brookshire’s World of Wildlife Museum and Country Store offers visitors of all ages a first-hand look at wildlife, as well as a glimpse into the past; an experience that is unequaled in East Texas"  (This foreposted is from the website). 

We were only allowed about 30 minutes, but I took photos of most of the animals.  It is amazing the collection. 

These are Dik-Diks

Game played by monkeys!

samples of barbed wire

This, and below is a 1920
store

Iceman signs and tongs

Coffee grinder

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Notice 1920's prices

meat scale

Eggs being sold "in bulk"

Ladder to get items on higher shelves

An early "cooler" for displaying chocolate candy bars --
ice is put in the top chamber.

After leaving the Museum we got gas ($2.05 - had paid $1.87 earlier in the day) and then stopped for Chinese buffet.

Got to our RV Park about 3 miles north of north edge of Tyler about 6:30 pm.  Turned on Air Conditioner first time in our trip as it was 85 degrees.  Is 74 degrees now at 9:10 pm and will shut it off for the night.

Will head out by 8 am and be at Rev. Baker's place northeast of Houston by 11:30 am for a visit with them and look at their new "barn-house".

Lynn