Crosbyton, TX – Nice Surprise
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times – be open to unaspected surprises. Crosbyton, Texas, with its a little campground with full hook-ups located next to their city park was such a surprise. We were on our way home. According to my calculations, it would take several more days. That was okay but the chances of another stretch of rainy weather was discouraging. As a matter of fact the idea of more traveling under heavy clouds and in intermittent rain storms or fog was down right depressing. For more than a week we hadn’t had the best traveling weather. Crosbyton’s little campground may not be a “Ritz of campgrounds” but it was one of the nicest city campgrounds we have ever used. Our sincere thanks to the folks of Crosbyton.
Crosbyton is a nice looking little city, as west Texas cities go. The landscape is flat, ironig board flat. The city “fathers” like to boast Crosbyon is “Where the 19th Century Meets the 21st Century.” Since we were on our way home, we did take time to visite the city’s Pioneer Memorial Museum, Mount Blanco Fossil Memorial, Prairie Ladies Multi-Cultural Center and the Veteran’s War Museum but I would like to at a later date. I mean, from my first impressions, if I had to live in Texas, a Crosbyton-like city would be my pick. Lubbock is near enough to meet my needs but Crosbyton has that small town feel. OMG, that sounds alot like my assessment of Bisbee!
Working Oxen Team – image from Rural Heritage website
Here’s a piece of trivia – a lot of the small ranch/farming communities you go through in the West have these nice wide (four or more lanes) roads because the people that settled in the area and established the towns drove oxen. Oxen don’t back-up so streets had to be wide enough for a team of oxen to make a 180 degree turn.
