Inside however, we found the library to be more interesting than Clinton’s, but I think it’s because of our age. As you might expect there’s lots of information on the 1960s, a time quite familiar to us in our college days—the civil rights movement, Vietnam War, the Great Society, and of course the Kennedy assassination. We have visited four Presidential Libraries and have found them all both educational and entertaining, but then all four were Democrats.
Volumes of historical papers for researchers.
JFK and LBJ
Our next stop was Katy TX, home of the famous Jerry and Sari Kroll. You don’t know them? You should stop in and visit them sometime—their hospitality is over the top. Jerry and Sari were with us at Big Chill in Colorado, so we invited ourselves to stay with them on our way through Texas.
On our way from Austin to Katy we drove through Balstrop and decided to have our picnic lunch at a state park outside of town. Well, our trusty GPS took us right to the park, but it didn’t tell us the park was closed for repairs. Rather than drive all over looking for another picnic area, we just pulled into a church parking lot and enjoyed our leftover County Line ribs in the van.
We reached the Krolls by late afternoon Friday, and after dropping our suitcases we went out for margaritas (again) and dinner.
On Saturday we got to meet Jerry and Sari’s daughter Jenna and grandson Coltane, then went to daughter Kate’s farm where she lives with husband Mark and new son Grady. It was good to finally meet these “girls” we had heard so much about over the years.
We toured Houston on Saturday afternoon and enjoyed dinner with the Krolls at Michelangelo’s, their favorite Italian restaurant in a Houston neighborhood. Back at the house that evening I introduced Jerry to Woodford Reserve bourbon, for which he will be forever grateful.
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