Not that it matters, but for acurracy - they lived in Midland at the time.
You know that I'm abysmal with the geography of Texas; I can always place Amarillo, El Paso, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston, but the rest of the state's a blank slate to me.
I knew the Bushes had lived somewhere else in Texas, and if one had said "Midland," I would have assumed Midland's a suburb of Houston, one of those bedroom communities, and used "Houston." Everybody knows where Houston's at.
Until recently, I thought San Antonio was perhaps at the bottom-most tip of Texas.
I've heard of San Angelo, and suspect it's in the center of the state.
And Austin is w-a-a-a-a-y down there somewhere.
During the early 1990s, I used to get irked when watching the U.S. House of Representatives on C-Span, and Richard Armey (R-Texas) was on. He was always identified with some obscure little town, and it frustrated me. Northern Texas? Southern Texas? Eastern Texas? Western Texas?
Later, I learned it was a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth, and wondered why C-Span didn't identify him with one of those two better-known places. Not many people watch television with an atlas near at hand.
My lack of knowledge about Texas isn't malicious or lazy; it's just that my "orientation" is north and east, not south and west. I can describe the geography of New Jersey or Connecticut, for example, in encyclopediac detail.
With California, it's worse than with Texas. I can place San Francisco, Lost Angeles, and San Diego, but that's it. I have a vague idea Fresno's somewhere down there in the southern half, along with Barstow, but am never quite sure.
edited to correct "Barlow" to "Barstow;" sorry for the inconvenience
