Posted on 08/20/2006 3:25:43 PM PDT by notonyournelly
Friday afternoon we traveled up to the Reagan Ranch itself. Now this is a pretty great honour as it is not open to the public. It will open one day, but for now probably only a few hundred or thousand people have been there. This was more than just a ranch - he spent one eighth of his presidency here - it came to be known as the Western White House.
It is around 40 minutes out of Santa Barbara, and a very windy steep road takes you up to the ranch.
The ranch is around 600 acres, but is a very simple modest place. The main house is only 1500 square feet, and much of it was built by Reagan himself. We were told that the KGB commented when they came out there with Gorbachev that they would not understand how a country's leader could live in such a simple house....
rest here, including photos.
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2006/08/the_reagan_ranch.html
Wow, thanks for the photo-pictorial, n. I've never seen those pics of RR's ranch before, and it's quite a beautiful place.
I have one of those cast-brass plaques, "On This Site In 1897, Nothing Happened", at my 20ac business in Penna. Always gets a laugh from customers and visitors. Found it in a magazine in '89.
Nice photos and glad you had the opportunity to visit Rancho de Cielo.
Too bad you have such a host of ass-hats visitng your blog. Typical Kiwi/Brit/Aussie looney leftist twits. A foul group of wankers known to be 'manly men' behind a computer screen.
I was there in July 1973 when he was buying it. He bought it from Ray Cornilius.
It was real simple in those days. He did create it.
If you look on the first page of the guest book you'll see the signatures of my three children.
Therein, lays a great story about the man.
What a wonderful experience you gave your children.
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