We were on the road by 9:30, it was an uneventful drive to Lubbock TX arriving and set up by 2:30. It was our usual day of travel 207 miles but only one stop. We have been staying off the interstates the only problem is finding a rest area. Now there are a lot of places to pull over but I don't know if I can maneuver the motor home through it until you are passing it. Anyway, we drove through some desolate areas and didn't eat lunch until we were about an hour away from Lubbock. It was very cool temps only in the low 60's. No grilling just left overs for dinner.
Tuesday 23 April 2019
Woke up to the pitter patter of rain drops and that was nice because we had hard rain during the night with a tornado warning for a hour or so. Tired of that, this is the third stop in a row with tornado warnings. It is not funny and Diane has started asking where the shelter is when we check in. Anyway that didn't stop us. After an indoor breakfast we headed out for the day umbrellas in hand. First was the Silent Wings Museum it is a museum of the glider planes used during WWII. We thought it would take a hour or so ended up we were in there for 2 1/2 hours. I never realized how much they were used I knew they were used on D-day but I found out they were used through out Europe and the Philippines. They even had a small bulldozer they carried to build a landing strip. We were starved by the time we left so we stopped at the closest place for lunch. We were lucky it was an event center that happen to serve lunch and it was great. It was a smoke house and we ordered the BEAST and of course we shared it. It consisted of 4 slices of brisket, 4 ribs, 1/4 lb. smoked turkey, 2 jalapeno and cheese sausages, 1/3 lb. pulled pork, homemade biscuits and two sides. Oh I forgot a cup of jalapeno bean stew came with it. We brought half of it home. And the day wasn't over next was the Buddy Holly museum and again it took twice as long as we thought it would. And again you learn so much. I'll just mention two things Buddy Holly's professional career only last 18 months and his group was the Crickets and they so impressed a group from England they called themselves the Beatles. By now we were exhausted back home, walk Rudy and snacks for
Buddy Hollys Famed glasses
Child hood home of J. I. Allison, he wrote 'That'll Be the Day" and he and Buddy wrote many of their songs in this home.
Wednesday 24 April 2019
Another cool cloudy day but without rain. To cool to grill so indoor breakfast then off again. Today we had a lot of stops. Started at the post office, liquor store, lunch and then the Wind Power Museum. We learned our lesson and had lunch before the museum. We stopped at the Iron Skillet it was very good we both just had salad with chicken. After yesterday we had to step it down a notch. Then off to the Wind Power Museum again it was ten times larger than we planned for. There were three arena size buildings all connected and probably 2 acres of outside displays. There were displays of mill wheels often turned by wind mills, huge scales train running the length of the building. By the time we were done it was to late to stop at the winery. I know, really, better planning next time. Back to Rudy some walks, packing for trip tomorrow and left overs for dinner.
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Lots and lots of
Windmills!
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A Lady made miniature homes and
Display pieces. There must have been
100 of them. This is just one of them.
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A display of Grinding stones,
many from PA and this one is
from Hershey Chocolate Factory.
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There was also a huge model train display. I didn't get a picture but it was really great and covered half of the first building then climbed a platform and ran around the building over head.
Thursday 25 April 2019
Still cool this morning but it is to warm up to 80's this afternoon. Breakfast, cleaned up and on the road by 10:20. Learning from previous trips we started looking for a lunch spot much sooner. We pulled into a large gas station with lots of parking for lunch. A very nice ride again all on secondary roads. We arrived at our campground and WOW what a scary place, we drove in one end and out the other. While I was turning the coach around Diane found another place just two miles away and it was great. Temps were is the 80's so burgers on the grill for dinner.
Lessons learned in Texas. Everything is bigger in Texas, an F150 is just a soccer mom's vehicle. Wind is just a way of life. Tornadoes to Texans is just another cloudy day. And we were surprised with industries we didn't associate with Texas. Sheep and goats are huge along with cotton. Today we drove for miles and miles with nothing but cotton fields with an occasional oil pumper.
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Now we are in Roswell, sleeping with the Aliens!!
That's our RV in the background!!
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