Fredericksburg and my new favorite city!

Hello again, blogfans!

Today we made the trip to Fredericksburg and toured the Nimitz Museum, a visit that takes the better part of the day! The first part, dedicated mostly to the career of Fredericksburg native Chester Nimitz, is very interesting in as much as it details how a kid from "Landlockville" Texas comes to serve with distinction in the US Navy! The second part of the tour, dedicated to the war in the Pacific, goes into some detail from the first shot to the last, including what was going on at home and what went on with the politics of the day. Very interesting!The last leg of the tour was more of a "hands-on" experience! They had a real Avenger torpedo plane like the one that was shot out from under former President George HW Bush; they had a real Higgins PT boat with all the accoutrement's! They had a genuine Japanese tank and various other Japanese ordinance set about to make things realistic. Best of all, they had one of the bomb casings from a "fat man" atomic bomb, and not just a mock-up! Apparently, and unbeknownst to me, the US had several other atomic bombs in its arsenal at the end of WWII and, had Japan not surrendered, they were going to use them in advance of the US invasion of the Japanese home island! I purposefully got a picture of the last "straggler" in the frame to give some idea of how large the bomb was! It was enormous!

As of today, I have a new favorite city in Texas! It is Sisterdale, Texas! It has the best junkyard EVER, not to mention some of the prettiest lanscape anywhere in the state! I am purposefully NOT posting a picture of THAT since, if I did, everyone would want to move there and that would certainly spoil things, wouldn't it? Suffice it to say, Sisterdale is awesome and MDB's awesomer still for snapping all of the fine photos of her!