We missed the big dust storm in Lubbock, Texas, on Monday by just a couple of hours. Even though we fought the wind all day, we managed to make it past Lubbock before the storm hit.
We were on the homeward leg of a 6 week trip and had planned to go further south, crossing Texas below Dallas and Fort Worth. Saturday and Sunday nights, we had been camped near Carlsbad, New Mexico. We were able to get online Sunday night, barely, and checked the weather forecast for where we were thinking of going – wind and blowing dust, with temperatures in the mid to high 90s. The forecast for the Lubbock area was cooler and windy, but blowing dust was not mentioned. After talking it over for a bit, we decided to head north instead of east.
I did get a some video from our windy day’s trip and produced a short YouTube video.
On this trip, I decided that I was not going to try to keep up with a travel blog. My intent was to keep a written journal and take lots of photos and video and to incorporate the journal and images into blog posts after we got home. I was only partially successful.
While I did take lots of photographs and videos, the written journal fell by the wayside after only a few days.
I did read quite a few books over the last six weeks, though.
