We Have Seen The Acuff Steakhouse

We will never be the same again, no, not ever. But now we return to Lubbock.

Tired but happy.

If only we'd caught some fish.

They'd have had to be rare dirt fish.

If only we were reporters for Field & Stream, or Texas Monthly!

We'd love to get a call from Texas Monthly. Nowhere else can you see so many pictures of Texas, of the HUMBLE things and the ORDINARY things, of Texas. They'd ask us how we do it, and buy us a tricked-out SUV and send us here and send us there, to photograph and report on the ordinary and humble and over-looked things of Texas. But no. That will never happen. Texas Monthly is all about solid gold, diamond studded horseshoes, and singers and song writers and guitar players and politicians and oil men. Dallas socialites and monuments. It's not to be.

We are as humble as the crap I take pictures of, and darn well proud of it!

 That's Loop 289 in the distance. Lubbock is now so vasty that the Loop can no longer contain it. Look out world! Lubbock is OOZING OUT, coming to ABSORB you and ANNEX you, like just another small town!

We're comin' to git yah!!

 

We Arrive At The Acuff Steakhouse

And of course, they are closed. They are closed most of the time. We are not even sure they are still in business.

Suddenly, you are there.

It's a humble place, with no pretensions. You select a table and you grab a plate off a stack and start piling on the food. The food is in warming trays in the back. No line. You just head for what looks good.

Apart from the famous steakhouse, there is really not much to Acuff.

Why not take a close look?

And then let's head back to Lubbock, just the way we came. Mission accomplished. What a feeling of satisfaction.

 

 

Still Heading For Acuff, Texas

And when we get to Acuff, there will be some pictures there... of the Acuff Steakhouse and environs. Meanwhile, we are still on the road.

It was kind of a cloudy day.

It is not entirely desolate. It would look better in the summer.

Despite the recent oil decline, plenty of pumpjacks are active. No new drilling, however.

Acuff is not that much farther down the road.