Lubbock - Abilene

October 13 Lubbock – Abilene

Lubbock is the home of Buddy Holly so today we went looking for the museum and the Texas Walk of Fame. Unfortunately Karen failed us in our attempt to find the place as we did not have any really specific address. We stopped and asked a man how to get there and he turned out to be a local council member. He actually took us to the site – in the next street then later he came back to check that we had found the museum. All through the USA, we have found the people to be so friendly, helpful and so polite.

It was nearly mid-day before we had finished in the museum and then headed off. Saw the American Wind Power Centre from the road in Lubbock but on the road south, we were driving with the Caprock Escarpment on our left side and then on the right were a series of mesas and on top were hundreds of wind generators.

Passed through Snyder,  which is the centre of the largest unitized oil field in the world. I thought we would see huge oil rigs but instead we saw hundreds of small pumps working on both sides of the road.

On then to Sweetwater where we saw four banks with a number of drive in ATM’s. We are now in Abilene and have tornado warnings again. Abilene  seems to be quite a modern city. Tomorrow we will explore it before we head to Fort Worth. Only three days left until we return home.