Today we moved on from San Luis Obispo, CA and made our way down US-101 for about 180 miles to Simi Valley, CA. It was a short travel day so we could dedicate the whole afternoon to visiting the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and his memorial on the site.
Ronald Reagan Library
We found the library to be very well done and a great tribute to a man who will likely prove to be the best President of our own lifetimes. One of the interesting themes of the design of the library, besides being externally styled to fit well in its California ranch land setting, is its architectural attempts to sometimes not so subtly replicate various aspects of the feel of the White House. Ok, yes, you forced it out of us…for the record, we actually have had Easter breakfast at the real White House, although it was with President Bush (43), not President Reagan.
Anyway, in total, we spent approximately four hours going through the exhibits which we found to be about the right amount of time to experience the library in pretty good detail.
Some of the noteworthy exhibits included the following:
Air Force One Pavilion
Full Section of Berlin Wall
Full Scale Oval Office Replica
Ronald Reagan Memorial
Finally, we found the following signs placed in various locations around the perimeter of the site somewhat fitting to the notion of duplicating the setting of the White House in Washington, DC.
Tomorrow we finish our journey south along the Pacific Ocean and make the second major left hand turn of the trip onto the origin of Route 66 in Santa Monica, CA so that we can start our trip back towards the east.
From Reagan to a crack-smoking, Muslim-born, Muslim-educated lawyer that’s never held an actual job and admires the likes of Farrakhan, Malcom X and Wright, which is so very, very wrong….. and it’s only been 20 years. My, how fast we’ve fallen.
Sorry, but I couldn’t hold that back.