First Stop: A Gipper Couch Nap

After a sleepless night, a sleepless five hour flight, and an hour drive through LA traffic to reach the Reagan Presidential Library, I was barely conscious, which didn’t bode well for having traveled to a place that I really wanted to pay close attention. Fortunately, the library was still relatively quiet when I arrived around 11am, with only a few guests wandering the halls, so I stopped into the cafe, ordered a sandwich, and fell asleep on this couch, just a few yards away from the graves of Ronald and Nancy. Might have been the best 30 minute nap I’ve ever had under the clear, quiet California sun.

Setting that aside, I found everyone to be kind and the library to be extremely well managed, with a predictable, yet plentiful array of history and exhibits, not the least of which was the installment of Air Force One, near the base of the Santa Susana Mountain Range.