March 21, 2021
After our beautiful sunrise drive through Palo Duro Canyon National Park, we got on the road and headed due south to Lubbock, a drive of about 110 miles.
Lubbock has a population of about a quarter-million and was named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock, former Texas Ranger and Civil War Confederate Colonel. He was also the brother of Francis Lubbock, governor of Texas during the Civil War.
Our first stop was to look around Texas Tech University, founded in Lubbock in 1923 and currently home to about 40,000 students. We enjoy visiting universities and always try to at least drive by or through the better-known ones on our trips. Bob especially likes to take a look at the football stadiums. Texas Tech has a big one ("Everything's big in Texas"), the Jones AT&T Stadium. It holds 60,862 fans.
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| West side facade and entrance |
