So just like that we decided to stay another day and do more exploring. It means knocking off one of our stops on the way to El Paso, so I guess we’ll see Comanche National Grassland some other time.
For anyone not familiar with 5h wheels, New Horizons produces one of the best quality 5th wheels on the market- also one of the most expensive ones. New Horizons is known for highly customizing their 5th wheels to whatever the customer wants. There were several reasons why we didn’t look at them when we ordered our Mobile Suites, and that’s one of the reasons. I honestly didn’t want to think that hard figuring out what we wanted. 
Their location was another reason we didn’t consider them. We wouldn’t have ordered without seeing them being built, and the factory is way over here in Kansas. The third reason we passed them over is the price. We couldn’t justify spending $150,000 on a rig. All that being said, we were still curious about them, since we’d never been in one, and so we drove over to take the factory tour. Our guide was Drew, the owner’s son, and he spent most of the morning showing us around the place. New Horizons is so customized, they only build one a week. So, after a great tour, did we see anything that made us want to run out and buy a New Horizons? Nope! We’re still happy with our DRV product, and after all, it was semi-custom built for us, and in fact there wasn’t anything that we wanted that DRV couldn’t do for us.
“If we don’t defend ourselves on the Rhine, we’ll have to defend ourselves in New York” –Dwight D. Eisenhower
After grabbing a quick lunch, we went to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Museum and Library. I must be easily annoyed because within a few minutes, after seeing rows and rows of huge plaques that were loaded with verbiage, I was complaining that if I had wanted to read a book, I would have saved my money and gotten one from the library. Dwight Eisenhower’s life can essentially be divided into three parts- his childhood, his military career, and his presidency.
His childhood was spent in a small home with his parents and 5 brothers, all of whom were particularly successful. In fact, when asked, soon after D-Day, if she was proud of her son, Dwight’s mother replied “ Of course. Which one?”
He never forgot the small town of Abilene Kansas, where he grew up, claiming that the thing he was most proud of in his life, was his upbringing in his hometown in Kansas. 
He attended West Point Academy and graduated with a group of men who would become extremely important and influential. In fact, his graduating class had more Generals than any other graduating class in West Point history. Out of 164 cadets, 64 eventually became Generals. Of course, Eisenhower was among those 64. During World War II he was promoted to Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, overseeing not just the United States war effort, but all the Allied Forces. He played a major role in the successful invasion of France and Germany.
Convinced to run for the presidency, Dwight easily won the election in 1952, and again in 1956. His terms in office took place during a relatively calm time in our history, although the cold war was “heating up.”
Once we’d had our fill of Dwight, we headed back home, but we’d heard about Mushroom Rock State Park, and since it was on the way, we decided to stop and see it. Yup, it looks like a mushroom.
