President: Lyndon
Johnson 
Start Point: Austin - 11km Walk (YR068) Jan 1 - Dec
31
Texas
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President: Lyndon
Johnson |
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Start Point: Austin - 11km Walk (YR068) Jan 1 - Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0077, Colorado River Walkers |
| History Lesson: Trail is a historical walk through downtown Austin, through the State Capitol Complex (going through the Capital Building when open), LBJ Presidential Library and the University of Texas Campus. |
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President: George
Bush |
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Start Point: College Station - 10km Walk (YR1990) Jan 2 - Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0903, Bushwalkers |
| History Lesson: Trail is on paved and gravel walkways around the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum and Texas A & M University. |
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President: John F.
Kennedy |
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Start Point: Dallas - 10km Walk (YR085); Jan 2 - Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0034, Dallas Trekkers |
| History Lesson: The trail is on city sidewalks and goes past historic buildings and skyscrapers, art exhibits, fountains and parks. This walk passes the exact location where Kennedy was assassinated and goes through the Kennedy Memorial nearby. |
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President: Dwight
Eisenhower. |
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Start Point: Denison - 10km Walk (YR629) Jan 1 - Dec 31
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| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0681, Star Trekkers of Irving |
| History Lesson: Trail passes historical homes, downtown area, M-K-T Railroad Station and President Eisenhower's birth place and many other historical places. |
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President: George W.
Bush |
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Start Point: Midland - 10km Walk (YR1881) Jan 1 - Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0897, Midland Walkabout Volkssport Club |
| History Lesson: You will pass many city parks and see the childhood home of President G.W. Bush and the G.W. and Laura Bush home at 1405 West Golf Course Road. Beautiful homes and wonderful skyline picture of downtown Midland. |
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President: George H. W.
Bush |
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Start Point: Odessa - University - 10km Walk (YR1829) Jan 1 - Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0897, Midland Walkabout Volkssport Club |
| History Lesson: On the University of Texas at the Permian Basin campus is a relocated house formerly belonging to the George H. W. Bush family. It is not open to the public yet, but it is fenced and has a sidewalk with ramp and landscaping plus sculptures of children playing in the yard. The plaque states that it was their first home in Texas; he is quoted as having "become a Texan" after just a short time. |
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President: Dwight D.
Eisenhower |
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Start Point: San Antonio (Fort Sam Houston) - 10km Walk (YR0261) Jan
1 - Dec 31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0006, Texas Wanderers |
| History Lesson: This route goes through the Quadrangle where deer, fowl and rabbits run free, past the Gift Chapel, the 1916 and 1941 quarters of the Eisenhowers, Fort Sam Houston and US Army Medical Museums. |
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President: Ulysses S. Grant,
Theodore Roosevelt |
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Start Point: San Antonio (River Walk) - 10km Walk (YR0055) Jan 1 -
Dec 31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0006, Texas Wanderers |
| History Lesson: This route meanders along Paseo del Rio or "Riverwalk", through the King William District, La Villiata, Hemisfair Park and through Mission San Antonio De Valero, better known as The Alamo. Route goes by the Menger Hotel where "Teddy" did recruiting for Rough Riders. The Menger Hotel, one of the state's oldest and best-known hotels, was opened on Alamo Plaza in San Antonio on January 31, 1859. In 1873 General Philip H. Sheridan and Secretary of WAr William W. Belknap were guess, and General Ulysses S. Grant spent four days at the hotel in 1880. The hotel was popular with army personnel from Fort Sam Houston and enjoyed a wide patronage. Theodore Roosevelt first visited the Menter in 1982 on a javelina hunt; he returned to recruit is Rough Riders (the First United States Volunteer Cavalry) at the hotel in 1898; in 1905 he was back for a banquet. |
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President: Lyndon Baines
Johnson |
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Start Point: San Antonio - 10km Walk (YR1174) Jan 1 - Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0200, Trinity Trekkers |
| History Lesson: This route takes you by St. Marks Episcopal Church where Lyndon Baines Johnson married Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor. They were married at this church on November 17, 1934. |
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President: Lyndon B.
Johnson |
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Start Point: San Marcos - 10km Walk (YR0481) Jan 2 - Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0411, San Marcos River Walkers |
| History Lesson: This walk is the site of President Johnson's college hometown. He lived in San Marcos from 1927 to 1930 and graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now known as Texas State University). The walk includes the "Old Main" which is the site where graduation ceremonies were held when President Johnson graduated. President Johnson returned to his alma mater in 1965 and signed the historic Higher Education Act. |
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President: Lyndon B.
Johnson |
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Start Point: Stonewall - 10km Walk (YR0547) Jan 2-Dec
31 |
| Sponsoring Club: AVA-0001, Volkssportverein Friedrichsburg |
| History Lesson: The route is entirely within LBJ State Park; across a small river (and in view the entire walk) is LBJ's home. It is a National Park Service property and only accessed by NPS tour bus. When Lady Bird dies the house itself will also open for tours. The walk takes you to the gate of the property, so although you don't walk on the property you are in view of it at all times. |
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Updated February 8, 2006