Another good night’s sleep and some breakfast – repack the car and off we go! The windshield is a mess so when we stopped for gas we also bought some Windex and used the glass scrapper we bought at the Alabama Walmart. We decided to head northwest for Albuquerque using secondary roads and avoid the post-Superbowl traffic.
Route 36 takes us into Rosenberg where a huge Frito Lay manufacturing complex takes up acres.
Just north of Rosenberg we passed a train that appeared to be carrying toxic materials including: hydrochloric acid, liquid petroleum, and some other stuff that didn’t sound good. Just as we were taking this photo the engineer blasted the horn and we both jumped out of our seats. Couldn’t wait to get by that train!
Continuing west on Rt. 71 we bypassed Austin on the lower level of a 5 layer intersection!
Here we are in Llano, TX and we see Mardi Gras preparations!
In Brady, TX they claim to be the Heart of Texas – signs everywhere proclaiming this!
Now we are truly in the midst of Texas with cotton fields and fields of stones and more cattle than you can imagine.
We did stop and pick a little cotton!
Using stone! 
We happen upon Good Year Proving Grounds taking up miles of space.
We stopped for lunch at Obie’s BBQ in Spicewood, TX. What a place – when you enter the host opens the top of an 8 foot warming oven to display briskets, sausages, ribs, roasts (turkey and pork), and half chickens.
We split a rack of ribs and ta’tar tot casserole. Pickles and butter beans, jalapenos, condiments were on a separate table and our plates were waxed butcher paper. So many ribs we wrap them for another meal and buy more tater tot casserole and blackberry cobbler to go.
After lunch we keep passing these trees with ball-like bunches of ??? If anyone knows what this is please tell us!
Miles and miles of flat, seemingly unproductive land until we spot energy sources.
After a nine hour drive we end up in Lubbock, TX for the night – pretty skies!
