The Longdogs

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2022-06-18 TRR Abilene Rally Part 1

 I wasn't in any hurry to leave Hords Creek in the morning because it was only an hour to Abilene and check-in wasn't until afternoon. My GPS sent me on back roads, really back roads instead of routing me back through Coleman. Except for one short gravel section, the roads were good but had no shoulders at all and almost no traffic which gets you thinking about what you would do if you had a blowout. Stay on the road with flashers on I guess because there was no place to pull off. I won't do that route again if we rally in Abilene again next year. 

The rally was at the Whistle stop RV Resort where we also had a rally last year. It's a newer park which means very few trees but it's nice and they take very good care of us when we rally there. since the rally didn't start until Thursday, those of us that were there on Wednesday went to Heff's Burgers fo. r dinner. The burgers are great and the portions are so large that you really want to order off the kids/seniors menu. I remembered that from last year. They had a huge staffing snafu with only one woman working there. We told her we weren't in any hurry so she took our orders and then she cooked them too. By the time she was done with us, a second person arrived to rescue her.


On Thursday we had brunch at Cracker Barrel and then we went to see the new Topgun movie. It's nice and cool in the theater and the movie was good. If I was Tom Cruise, I would have been very unhappy with the dye job they did on his hair, lol.
 
I spent the afternoon visiting with my sister-in-law and got back just after the Meet and Greet started.


Friday morning was set aside for siteseeing on your own. Some of the group went to the National WASP Museum in Sweetwater. It is well worth your time to visit.


Since I went to the WASP Museum, I talked my sister-in-law Elaine into going to the Frontier Texas Museum with me. She has lived in Abilene for 30 years and has never been there. Seems like you often see more when you visit someplace than when you live there as you keep thinking you will go another time.

The Frontier Texas Museum was great. We both really enjoyed it.

The lobby had some really great sculptures and scenery typical of Texas.


The first thing you do is see a movie telling you about the old days. It was narrated by a character acter that many would recognize if they watched old westerns. Next we walked around and listened to various "actors" giving us their version of what the old west days were like. They were holograms set in natural settings for the particular well-known person. They werre all good but some were amazing lifelike.

the killing off of the huge herds of bisons was featured in many different ways.

Many of the props had ben featured in well known movies.

There were many settings where you pushed a button to learn all about that particular area.

The Butterfield Overland Stage was a very prominent means of travel.

This particular character, an actual person, told us her whole life story. she was married 4 times and lost every husband through some terrible mishap from Indians to accidents. Her husband, daughters, and a son were killed by Indians during a raid. One horrible thing after another happened to her but she just kept persevering. It was an amazing story of fortitude and courage.

The final part of the museum was a theater where sate on stools that turned around. The whole story happened all around you with storms and stampedes and stories being told. It was really amazing. I definitely recommend a visit to this museum.








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