BUDDY HOLLY

Our next planned stop was Waco to visit the "Magnolia Silos". It was a longer drive than we were willing to do. I looked for somewhere midway and Lubbock looked good.

Found a campground on line, made reservations and headed out. It has been a wonderful trip but we were both happy to be pointed East.

The Buddy Holly Museum was a "must".

Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures inside the museum so you will just have to go see for yourselves.

BUT the childhood home of Jerry Allison, the drummer for the Crickets was moved to the Museum and Carol could take pictures inside of it. It is significant because all of the rehearsals and several of their recordings took place here. This is also where they came up with the name "Crickets" after talking about and discarding "Beetles". The Beatles picked their name in homage to Buddy Holly.

Next stop was a short walk to the Lubbock "Walk of Fame." It's an impressive list of names from Lubbock and West Texas.

Click HERE for a complete list of honorees.


Another "in between" was waiting for us. The clerk at the Museum explained that our ticket would get us a discount at the Silent Wings museum just a few miles away in the old terminal at the Lubbock Airport.

The Glider Corps played a major role in several theaters in WWII. The vast majority of pilots were trained in Lubbock. It was a wonderful afternoon for me and Carol was very patient with me. I knew about the program but had no idea how BIG the gliders were. Here is one next to an L-4. That's a Piper Cub to us civilians.

They could carry 2 crew and 26 battle ready troops or a Jeep or a 75mm Howitzer. Their biggest operation was on D-Day when almost 1000 gliders landed behind enemy lines in Normandy.

Here is a link to more information about these brave men.

Our next stop was Waco. This was only the second day of our trip when it rained on a day we had plans to do or see something. We had driven through several days of rain but that was OK - we weren't going to be out in it anyway.

The rain kept us from touring the rest of Waco and we definitely want to go back. It's a beautiful little city with lots of interesting things to see and do. Rain was not going to dampen our spirits at Magnolia Silos though. Chip and Jo weren't there - they were off on a book signing tour. I told Carol we could get our picture taken with them anyway because there were life sized cardboard cutouts of them. Unfortunately they had been stolen some weeks before. The police recovered them but management hadn't decided how to safely display them so they were in a storage area.

Laser cut metal plaque.

Their new book. Both Carol and I highly recommend it.

They are really famous for their bakery.

We indulged but their eating area is outdoors so we took our treats back to the Airstream.

Another wonderful day that had not been in our original travel plan.

God just keeps on being Good.