Traveling in west Texas

After we spent the night in Lubbock, We got a fairly late start and it was 10 AM before we pulled out.  We stopped at the National Museum of Wind Power and looked at the history of the windmill.  It was interesting but the most interesting part to me was how much noise those large turbine windmills make.  The blades are moving deceptively fast and while they were straight when we saw them on the road the day before, they were bent from the wind pressure and made a surprisingly loud whoosh every time a blade passed in your direction.  It was not train whistle loud but for something I assumed was silent, it was pretty loud. 

It's a windmill petting zoo.

That dot at the base is Matt standing next to the wind turbine.

This windmill is based on a English design and the first built in the US.

A large turbine windmill blade

 After we left the museum much more well-informed about windmills and wind power, we headed out of the windy and very dusty city of Lubbock to go even farther south.  On our way we found a near life-size replica of Stonehenge and the second largest meteor crater in the US.  Both were worth the stop but I was glad they were free.

Replica of StoneHenge

Meteor Crater 

Historical western saloon