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The no-fly map for Crawford gives coordinates for the center of a no-fly zone, 312437N/0973237W, which might be interpreted as the approximate lo cation of the Bush ranch. The following aerial photos and maps show the vicinity of the coordinates.
htm Crawford has the Prairie Chapel Ranch now being called alternately the " Texas White House" or the "Western White House." First Lady Laura Bush spent several weeks after the inauguration readying the ranch for its n ew role as the Presidential retreat away from the Oval Office. when I'm not in Washington, there's a pretty good c hance you'll find me on our place in Crawford, Texas." George W and Laura Bush purchased around 1600 acres just outside of Cra wford in 1999. Located 18 miles southwest of Waco, Crawford is about 90 miles north of Austin and convenient to Fort Hood for those flights in on Air Force One.
The ranch property includes a creek, canyon, waterfalls, and meadows whe re cattle and deer graze. The Bush family renovated an existing farmhou se and built a new home there. As an avid fisherman Bush added a privat e fishing lake stocked with bass. However, the curious trekking out to the ranch won't see any of that. From the road there's only pastures, b arbed wire fences, and signs that warn "No stopping. You might, however, meet up with a few Secret S ervice agents near the ranch and in town.
html Mr Bush prefers spending the month of August in the 100-degree heat at his Central Texas ranch, seven miles down an empty road from Crawford, a one-stoplight town. Kennebunkport, for all its cool, rocky beauty, ha s the constraints of family and a crowded resort town with shops like the Copper Candle and the Snappy Turtle. Walker's Point, the promontor y on which the enormous stone and brown-shingled Bush family home sits, is a striking display of the patrician New England roots that Mr Bush has spent his political life avoiding. It was the current President Bush's great-grandfather, George Herbert Wa lker, who bought Walker's Point in 1902, and then in 1905 finished what the family has always called the "big house." The house passed on to M r Walker's son, Herbert Walker; after he died, then-Vice President Bus h bought the house in 1981 from Herbert Walker's wife. One thing the current President Bush did not do was go for a run along t he craggy bluffs of Ocean Avenue, prime jogging territory, which would have meant shutting down the road and further snarling the already back ed-up traffic in town something his parents, who live here from June to October, are loath to do. On his 1,600-acre ranch in Texas, Mr Bush can run wherever he likes.
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