Day 11 of our "50th Trip

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Sunset at Stillwell Store & RV near Big Bend NP

In Lubbock for the night.  Set up on a real nice spot.  We got here this afternoon and went to Carol Breeden's place (my first cousin on my Dad's side) and visited with her a bit at her house and then went out to eat with her and one of her grandsons at a nice Chinese Buffet.  Had a long catch-up visit, she said it had been 2000 since we were together last, though we keep up on Facebook.

 This morning we had left our park near Midland and spent some time at George W. Bush's house as a youngster.  Very nice escorted visit through the house with a lot of history given by lady on the years when George H W Bush and Barbara lived there with George W. as a lad.

We had stopped in Odessa, TX at the Presidential Archives  the afternoon before and spent a couple hours looking at history at each and every president, with photos, as well as First Lady photos and many recreations of first lady dresses.

The whole area south of Midland and some to the north is busy with all sorts of well drilling and trucks of all sorts.  We took one of the last sites available at an RV Park and they said most of their sites are occupied by oil rig workers.  When we got set up we found that many were living under picnic table covers with tarp wrapped around them.  One even had an air conditioner duct taped into the side of it.  Several guys were sleeping in vans that had electric wires running in a window, I suppose for heat and maybe lights, etc.

 It was 37 degrees when we woke up and I doubt these people had spent too good of a nice.  They were living there full time while working.  Sure beats many of those liberal people on welfare that "can't find work".  Nuff said.














We are going to find a laundromat tomorrow and I will get the oil changed in the Ford tomorrow before we head north to Amarillo.

Cow Chips aren't for Dipping!

Lynn