Buc-ee's

[06 Dodge]

We just spent two weeks in Port Lavaca, TxX and visited four Buc-ees! Unfortuately they were the small convenience store variety instead of a Travel Center. I was a little disappointed.... I wanted a T-Shirt

Here are a few photos to use as desktop background until you can get one of your own

 

[Crunch]

We just spent two weeks in Port Lavaca, TxX and visited four Buc-ees! Unfortuately they were the small convenience store variety instead of a Travel Center. I was a little disappointed.... I wanted a T-Shirt

Wow! You went retro and hit up the OG Buc-ee's in the lands of their ancestors. Those small Buc-ee's were the first ones I ever visited, long before they supersized. Ironically, these small Buc-ee's locations do allow large trucks to fill up, which is why they have the extra tall canopies over the pumps. Kind of surprised they don't sell T-shirts at the kid's table stores. You'd think they would be merch pimpin' that stuff everywhere they can. Kind of makes me want to make a pilgrimage to the first Buc-ee's created, if it still exists...

 

[06 Dodge]

All most time to head back down to TX so the wife can buy up some more jerky at Buc-ee's

 

[Crunch]

All most time to head back down to TX so the wife can buy up some more jerky at Buc-ee's

Depending on when you make the trip you might not have to drive all the way to Texas (though you should anyway, because it's well, Texas!) A Buc-ee's is opening up in Johnstown, CO this year. Just south of Fort Collins, probably on I-25.

 

[06 Dodge]

Depending on when you make the trip you might not have to drive all the way to Texas (though you should anyway, because it's well, Texas!) A Buc-ee's is opening up in Johnstown, CO this year. Just south of Fort Collins, probably on I-25.

We will be landing in Dallas the morning of March 16th the wife said by the time we leave on the morning of the 28th we will have stopped at every Buc-ee's between Dallas and San Antonio

 

[GAmes]

I doubt the one in Hillsboro will be finished by then. That leaves her only the one in Temple I think.

 

[Crunch]

I doubt the one in Hillsboro will be finished by then. That leaves her only the one in Temple I think.

And New Braunfels...

 

[06 Dodge]

IIRC there are 3 we will be stopping at, one of them is not in Dallas but north of Ft Worth off I-35w, then the one up by Denton an the one down in New Braunfelf and if the open in Hillsboro that will make it 4

 

[Wiredawg]

We went to New Braunfels last week, I had the three meat BBQ sandwich, turkey, brisket, and sausage with pickles and onions. Superb! Vivian had brisket sandwich and we shared fried potatoes chips. Way dee-lish-ee-us! Place was packed like sardines, bathrooms fresh and clean, easy in, easy out. We ate off the bed of the 5500.

 

[Crunch]

IIRC there are 3 we will be stopping at, one of them is not in Dallas but north of Ft Worth off I-35w, then the one up by Denton an the one down in New Braunfelf and if the open in Hillsboro that will make it 4

Don't forget Temple. So if the Hillsboro location is open, you get a fiver!

 

[06 Dodge]

Sorry to say Hillsboro Bucc-ees not open, it was fully stocked but opening was delayed to April 8 to coincide with the solar eclipse but we sure did stock up on Jerky

 

[Yo Hoot]

Bucees is a big room full of junk food. The bbq looks great but the rest is nothing to write home about.
Overrated. Big doesn't mean great.

 

[Crunch]

Sorry to say Hillsboro Bucc-ees not open, it was fully stocked but opening was delayed to April 8 to coincide with the solar eclipse but we sure did stock up on Jerky

Not sure if that makes me happy or not. I'm going down to Hillsboro (actually a few miles east) to see this here eclipse because that's right smack in the middle of the glide path. I'd love to stop there to fuel up and get some food, but the idea of stopping at a Buc-ee's on their grand opening while the last total eclipse of the sun in Texas for the next few hundred years is going on kind of strikes fear into my heart...

 

[Crunch]

Bucees is a big room full of junk food. The bbq looks great but the rest is nothing to write home about.

The beef jerky is pretty awesome, too. And if you are into ranching deer like livestock, it's a good place to get deer corn at a reasonable price. But you are correct that Buc-ee's can be described as a "big room full of junk food". But then really, what truck/travel stop isn't? Chester's Fried is a jewel in the Love's empire. Love that chicken from Ches...Oh, wait...wrong place!

 

[Yo Hoot]

The beef jerky is pretty awesome, too. And if you are into ranching deer like livestock, it's a good place to get deer corn at a reasonable price. But you are correct that Buc-ee's can be described as a "big room full of junk food". But then really, what truck/travel stop isn't? Chester's Fried is a jewel in the Love's empire. Love that chicken from Ches...Oh, wait...wrong place!

I almost bought some of that jerky but decided to save my heart.

 

[Wiredawg]

My wife and I visited the Buc-ees today in New Braunfels TX. I got the sausage, smoked turkey, and chopped brisket sandwich, an order hot homemade potato chips and my wife got pulled pork. I discovered Buc-ees branded pineapple cream soda from the fountain drinks. Vivian got a lime-cherry Icee. Everything was very dee-lish-ee-us! Even with about 1,000 people inside, we easily got in, broused around, got our food and drinks. then enjoyed our food on the bed of the 5500.

I was bird dogging a replacement for the pipeline steel charcoal grill I bought at Bucees 15 years ago. I didn't wear it out, I gave it to a family member who could still lift the 90Lb tabletop grill. The one's Buc-ees have now weigh much less but are smaller than I wanted, so going to get Char Grill that weighs 42Lbs for the RV. Gonna miss the the old one, but not the back pain.

So, I'll post my next trip to Buc-ees, maybe photos next time.

Cheers, Ron

 

[NIsaacs]

Arizona is getting one.

https://www.abc15.com/entertainment...es-what-we-know-about-the-texan-travel-center

 

[Crunch]

Just got back from my eclipse voyage to Hillsboro. Unfortunately, the Hillsboro Buc-ee's wasn't open. That's because Oncor, the company that manages the electrical grid in Texas didn't deliver some kind of control panel in time. So the grand opening has been delayed till April 21st or 22nd. So we boogied a few miles to the west to downtown Hillsboro for the eclipse, which worked out great. Hillsboro did it up right, with vendors surrounding the courthouse on the town square. There was music, lots of dogs and good street tacos, which almost made up for the lack of Buc-ee's BBQ. There was a car museum, and also an old school Gulf on one corner that still had the early 1960s fuel pumps. The garage had the remnants of an old pneumatic car lift, which in retrospect, seems a bit scary. Air drains faster than fluid! The clouds came and went, but there were plenty of clear moments, especially during totality. People cheered, no one was abducted by aliens, and a good time was had by all.

 

[06 Dodge]

Just got back from my eclipse voyage to Hillsboro. Unfortunately, the Hillsboro Buc-ee's wasn't open. That's because Oncor, the company that manages the electrical grid in Texas didn't deliver some kind of control panel in time. So the grand opening has been delayed till April 21st or 22nd. So we boogied a few miles to the west to downtown Hillsboro for the eclipse, which worked out great. Hillsboro did it up right, with vendors surrounding the courthouse on the town square. There was music, lots of dogs and good street tacos, which almost made up for the lack of Buc-ee's BBQ. There was a car museum, and also an old school Gulf on one corner that still had the early 1960s fuel pumps. The garage had the remnants of an old pneumatic car lift, which in retrospect, seems a bit scary. Air drains faster than fluid! The clouds came and went, but there were plenty of clear moments, especially during totality. People cheered, no one was abducted by aliens, and a good time was had by all.

When we went by the place a few weeks ago and there was power at the store wonder what happened..

 

[Crunch]

When we went by the place a few weeks ago and there was power at the store wonder what happened..

Not sure. They had barrels across the openings to keep vehicles out, and some guys on electric carts there to watch it. There were what seemed like contractors parked in there, so some kind of work was going on. The sad thing? There was a half-built big Valero just down the street that is going to lose out big. The interesting thing? We stopped at the TA across the street. They had some big drainage pond at the west end of the parking lot. All the drainage from the whole site looked like it drained into that pond. And on the edge of that pond were two cedar trees that had obviously been cut down by...beavers! I told the girl working at the Burger King inside not to worry because they would be moving across the street in a couple of weeks.