Leaving the Dust Bowl

Monday, October 17



I guess we were one step ahead of the dust bowl today.  After watching the evening news we realized we left Lubbock, Texas just in time.  A serious wind storm blew through the pan handle today picking up dust causing zero visibility at times.  We experienced some of this as we arrived in  Canyon, Texas later in the afternoon.  We were rather excited to see actual tumble weeds blowing around ~ little did we know the reason. 

We intended to visit the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock this morning but when we arrived it wasn't open.  The publications we were given had the wrong information, so we moved on toward Canyon.

Directly in our path was Plainview home of Nami, Joe's grandma, so of course we had to stop to say hello.  We had a lovely visit but could only stay for a couple of hours because SHE had to go back to work!  Go Nami!

Francis

John, Lynn, Francis

She is a wonderful lady and we really enjoyed our visit and tour.  She felt badly that we didn't get to see the Heritage Museum in  Lubbock so she said she would take us on a tour of her museum (house).  What a treasure.  Through our discussions we discovered  that Francis was from Brownfield ~ the town we stayed in two nights before ~ interesting. 

which way to Texas?

 After our visit we drove on to Canyon, Texas for the night. We had expected to see some Texas Longhorns on our travels through this state but we have been here for three days now and haven't seen a' one.  We actually saw one when we were in New Mexico and took its picture.  We thought we would save the picture just in case we needed it ~ we weren't supposed to see 'long horns' in New Mexico ~ only Texas.  After our visit with Nami today we figured we couldn't fake it and say we saw some long horns traveling through Texas today because she informed us that there are no long horns in west Texas ~ they even have to rent them for the Plainview fair.  Imagine that!  

 

We did actually see many fields of cotton that have also been affected by the drought.  We have been told that normally the plants would be larger by this time.