Dec 21, 2008
Over the river than through the woods…
I’m at a Townesomethingorother Suites in Lubbock Texas. I left Austin yesterday around 1pm and it was a balmy 80f but the weather people said a cold front was coming so I decided to head west before any chance of problems.
When I go on these road trips I always like to get out of Texas on the first day. You drive all day and you’re still in Texas just makes the trip longer. But this time around Abilene I realized I wasn’t feeling super hot and decided I would not get all the way to Clovis, NM and so set the TomTom on a course to Lubbock — proud home of Buddy Holly and the the Texas Tech Red Raiders. And wind. Cold, cold, win.
Outside of Sweetwater, TX I saw they had built a lot more more windmills for power generation. There’s still a little oil in these parts but now days the energy is from the wind. So that was nice. This is the area where my electricity for my apartment and work come from. They say the problem with wind power is sometimes it stops blowing. I don’t think that is the case here.
What was interesting is about an hour outside of Austin the Obama stickers went away on cars. Haven’t seen a Prius since I left Austin. Lots of McCain/Palin stickers and large yard signs on people’s farms. These counties out here went 80+% McCain/Palin. I wonder if they are in denial.
Just outside of Lubbock my “not feeling too hot” turned into OMFG I have to pull over and puke. Thing were also percolating on the other end as well. I don’t know what came over me but I thought I was going to die and was feeling nauseous as I got to town. Lubbock built some sort of interchange thingy that TomTom didn’t know about so my trip was lengthened by about 15 minutes as I TomTom and I argued over whether or not where I was actually existed on the map.
Got to the room and took care of some business and then fell asleep. So now it is 5:15 in the morning and I’m fully rested. My GI tract seems OK, I just have this lingering headache I had last night for the last hour of the trip.
So now I’m in a warm toasty room and looking at weather.com to see it is the coldest I’ve experienced since I was in Moscow last year. Those heated seats that I have in my car that I thought were stupid just might come in handy.
Yikes? That’s colder than it is here right now. Although mine also comes with like a foot of snow, so yeah, probably not quite the same. The winds stayed away though so no power outage. Yay!
Glad you’re not still sick. Roadtrip plus upset stomach is not so bueno.
oh no. the wind power. this is a bad. not so good. the wind power it kills the birds. many things is possible with the wind power.