Odessa, United States Travel Blogs

From Cows to Cotton

A travel blog entry by destination49

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Started the second leg of our trip today, heading for Arizona. 350 miles later and we're still in Texas! We left cow country and have come into cotton country. This stretch of I-20 was pretty much just cows, cotton and oil wells. Not ...

Auf einsamen Strassen durch S�d-Texas

A travel blog entry by tiszrh

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... der Landschaft etwas die Sch�nheit nahmen. Nach insgesamt sieben Stunden und 500 Kilometern Ankunft in der Autobahn-Stadt Odessa, welche mit dem Original in der Ukraine immerhin das �l-Business als zentralen Wirtschaftszweig gemeinsam hat. Ich bin ...

That's More Like It!

A travel blog entry by sponger42

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Oil leak fixed, $45 motel, and within 1-day's range of our motel. Now we're doing a little better. Caught up to a storm front in Nevada around sunset, when thunderstorms are at their most powerful. As we drove past, under the rain-free base, just to ...

Petroleum and Presidential Museums

A travel blog entry by socks

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... , their political affairs, and their worldwide influences. Also included in the Museum are artifacts of the First Ladies, Vice Presidents, and Presidential Candidates, as well as Presidents of the Republic of Texas and the Confederate states of ...

Arriving at Midessa Oil Patch RV Park

A travel blog entry by socks

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5 Hour drive from Big Bend National Park. Nice country roads through the desert. During our visit we plan on visiting both the Petroleum and Presidential ...

Happy to leave Odessa

A travel blog entry by radsolv

Had enough of Frieze, Nichols & Esmond, Surveyors. Heading to ...

Visit with relatives/switch to destination mode

A travel blog entry by greenvanartusa

... now, just covering ground. After a final donut stop at Mister Donut on route 13 I stop about 2:57 in the morning at the u-turn parking lot in the middle of the dual highway in Odessa, DE. 253.3 miles for the ...

In the heart of Texas Oil Fields

A travel blog entry by averynet

Good but long drive today on our way to Northeast Dallas tomorrow night. A bit breezy in the afternoon. A mid-day nap is certainly the solution to safe driving, even if only for 30 minutes. We really are in the middle of Texas' oil wells/pumps next to ...

Stressing out

A travel blog entry by nicolevford

I am stressing about buying a new camera for our Hawaii trip. My Canon point and shoot died while on our Spring Break Vacation. I have procrastinated for as long as possible. It's crunch time and I have to decide. My choices are a ...

So much football

A travel blog entry by kmayer

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... "Friday Night Lights" I hope to learn why they love football so much. Where I will be staying is a town called Odessa. When I first got there I realized there team mascot was a stinking PANTHER. Which just so happens to be Stephanie's town Mascot. ...

pit stop in Odessa (1st impressions of Texas)

A travel blog entry by chadmarco

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... so it's worth it to us to go out of our way a little. Plus we need to sleep somewhere along our way toward Austin. We made Odessa and pulled into a Walmart/Sam's Club parking lot around 9pm Friday. No need for AC cuz it's only in the mid 70's. I had ...

Job at last

A travel blog entry by radsolv

Wind up in Odessa TX . Visit Texas State Employment Dept. Take job as Rod and Chain man on surveyor team with Frieze, Nichols & Co. Minimum wage. Stay till early May, saving. No social ...

Travels with Sam

A travel blog entry by susieq223

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Wed. Dec 3. Well, after a couple of months of getting ready, Sam and I are on the way! We left about 10:00 and drove about 7 hours and 300 miles, just past Defuniack Springs to a resort campground on a lake. Quite a large one and expensive. ($27.00) I ...

Odessa, Texas

A travel blog entry by mobiler

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Home again

A travel blog entry by siswoo

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Our trip home was uneventful. I had wondered why I never saw any gas stations in Paris - certainly with all those cars they must need to refuel fairly locally. Our driver to the airport informed us that in the City of Paris the gas stations ...

Shopping Day!

A travel blog entry by npkranchclayton

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Since I wasn't riding today, we drove into Kearney and topped of the fuel and water. We then went to our favorite store, Farm and Tractor Supply. We got horse feed (they carry Purina) and the cutest compressed bales of timothy. They ...

West Texas

A travel blog entry by aquasheep

Visiting Meemo and Grandpa in Odessa as a very young child. Dates are ...

On The Road To Victory

A travel blog entry by kmayer

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Well another week has past in this wonderful town of Odessa, Texas home of the Panthers. A lot has happened this week and I also had made some new friends. The first one I will be talking about is Boobie. He was one of the best players in Texas I mean ...

Big Bend NP and brushes with the law in Texas

A travel blog entry by maccasworldtour

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... knowing. After a nervous 30 minutes they gave me the all clear and sent me on my way. By the time I got to Odessa it was starting to get dark, so I decided to stop there for the night. There was a nice steak restaurant near the hotel, ...

Getting Our Plan together

A travel blog entry by gsekorea

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Finished our Bio's for brochures, planned uniform, talked about presentation, gifts, travel insurance, introduced to travel pod, reviewed some Korean words, talked briefly about what we might expect in South ...

Las Cruces to Odessa, TX

A travel blog entry by helenskib

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... lights, but no tail light. And several road guards pulled up beside me and told me the same thing. The day ended in Odessa - at Rays Equipment - what an experience! The Patriot Guard was out in force - flags everywhere - it was GREAT! Rays paid for ...

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