Abilene, TX

Site:

Whistle Stop

Site: 33

Wifi: Verizon - 10 down, 40 up / ATT - 60 down, 30 up

Cost: $225/week

Noise: Moderate - highway and train noise

We read reviews on Whistle Stop and everyone said they have the nicest bathrooms. I’m here to tell you that OH MY GOD THEIR BATHROOMS ARE AMAZING. We would have paid for the bathrooms alone. They are individual bathrooms like you have in a house, they’re clean, the showers are big with actual showerheads, awesome water pressure and the water actually gets warm. It was a dream. The sites weren’t overly close together, office folk seemed nice enough, and it’s a hot minute to get on the highway. Were we to need to go back to Abilene we would stay there again. 

City

Abilene, TX

Look, I came in to Texas having a bit of a bias. But people in Texas have been very friendly and helpful, and the people of Abilene were no exception. Abilene has a lot of amenities, including MULTIPLE WALMARTS. We found a Walmart that even had Pineapple Upside Down cake, which is Ron’s favorite, and YooHoo, which is my favorite. We went to the zoo, which was small but you got to be really close to the animals. We also visited the Frontier Texas museum, which was really someone’s idea for a multimedia experience. It took us about two hours to get through, and they had a lot of great information. It was a little weird, though, because you can tell they were trying to be as PC as possible, while still calling Native Americans “Indians” at every turn. Guess having the flow of Cowboys and Indians was more important than respect, but what can you do when talking about the slaughter of entire nations.

Nasty, nasty fish mouths looking for food at the zoo

Restaurant:

Chicken Express

We went to Chicken Express thinking it was some local fast food place. We have never heard of Chicken Express, and honestly didnt expect much. It. Was. Amazing. The food was well seasoned, cooked nicely, and you get a ton of it for the price. Ron had chicken gizzards, which he says were “exactly what he was expecting having eaten thousands in the past, and it’s exactly what I wanted”. Can’t look at a Chicken Express without the Chicken Attack song coming to mind, but we would definitely go back again, especially we have seen one in literally every town we have driven by since.