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Travel Blogs from Lubbock

Lubbock TX to Santa Fe NM

A travel blog entry by cn2012

... I was English I knew all about the car, couldn't of been more wrong, still pretended I knew what I was talking about. So today was Fort Sumner NM, Billy the Kids burial ground, which seemed pretty cool. 90+ day today, we hit the ground running but the previous days speed was nowhere near going to be hit as the roads became worse and gradients were against us, proved to be frustrating, when you have had a ride that goes that well it's hard to deal with ...

Lubbock Tx.

A travel blog entry by mememe

... but there is no IMAX in Lubbock, so decided to go and see Ted instead. Drove to the cinema, and there was a HUGE line for The Dark Knight. Lot's of people dressed up as Batman...really??? Woman at the box office said I was 5 mins too late for Ted, so I headed of at speed to the other side of town to see if I could catch it there...no luck :(

Gave up and went back to the hotel. Thought I would cheer myself up with some room ...

Big Texas shopping week...

A travel blog entry by mother.ship

... shopped. We started today with shopping at the Market Street grocery and gathering the food we would need to have in the cooler for the 3 days drive home.

After receiving several versions of the status of Big Blue from VW and Hub City Auto Body, Carmel and I threw our sleuthing into a higher gear and managed to eek out further documents / invoices / work order copies from the VW dealer to get a ...

Lubbock...still...

A travel blog entry by mother.ship

... road into the service lot, unnoticed While my partner covered our vehicle I casually meandered into the service bay to make inquiry regarding the status of the van. I spoke with Jennifer, service manager for Gene Messer VW, Chevy, Buick, Ford, Honda, Toyota, Cadillac, Kia, Suzuki, Hyundai.... (Messer is apparently the Mossy of Lubbock) and she gave me the basic run down and ET of delivery on parts that have been ordered and when BB will ...

Road Trip - Part Deux

A travel blog entry by mother.ship

... An ample family came into seat A of row 19 and all three seats of row 18. It was a rough flight and that was demonstrated well when the 3 year old in the seat in front of me unloaded the contents of his stomach. Yes, Adventure!
Once we arrived in Lubbock we called back to Hub and they sent a driver....who happened to be Angel, the owner of Hub City. It used to be her father's company. She let us know that the a/c on the van had some ...