What do you do when it’s cold and windy out? You go visit a couple of museums and take really cold and noisy walks. In Lubbock, we stayed at an RV park in the city. It was nice and I was able to use the laundry facilities rather than finding a laundromat. Traffic noise is pretty mute when the van is closed up, which happens when it is windy and in the upper 40s/lower 50s. Not running the air conditioner now!

First stop was the Museum of Texas Tech University which is a very large building with science, art and culture displays. A master’s degree in museum science is available, which I didn’t know was a thing. I wandered through the Mesozoic Era in Texas display, a biodiversity of the Llano Estacado (one of the largest plateaus in North America), and some art collections.

Charles Hardin Holley got his nickname, Buddy, from his mother and his misspelled last name from a mistake in his first recording contract. Our second museum was The Buddy Holly Center is in the city of his birth on Crickets (his first band’s name) Avenue, one block east of Buddy Holly Avenue. Taking pictures of the museum displays is not allowed. There is a tour of the boyhood home of J.I. Allison, the drummer of The Crickets, Holly’s band that recorded “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue”. Buddy’s family moved frequently, and the high school band members met at JI’s home to practice as he had a nice-sized bedroom. JI insisted on the “Peggy Sue” title rather than Buddy’s niece Cindy Lou as it was originally titled. JI wanted his girlfriend Peggy Sue to reconsider their breakup; she did and they were married for a time.