Comments on: A trip to Muleshoe with Olivia

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:21:40 +0000

olivia, thank you so much for posting about muleshoe! i feel like my blog is so cultural now (seriously).

the donut story is my favorite too (did they think dunkin’ donuts was trying to take them down? i mean, really?), although i wanted to see more pictures of yr grandmother.

p.s. jay, i did not go to muleshoe. but i did go to disneyworld.

By: olivia

olivia — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:48:09 +0000

Jay – sorry for not being more clear! I was a guestblogger, and I went to Muleshoe, not Sarah. Sorry! She’s away so I guestblogged…

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:08:09 +0000

Ok, now I’m completely and totally confused. Who went to Muleshoe. I do now remember that you Olivia has family there, but I didn’t notice that you wrote the post. I thought Sarah went there, and since my folks know her very well they would have liked to buy her lunch and hang out…but she didn’t go, you went? or you both went and you wrote the post? I’m terribly lost.

By: olivia

olivia — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:14:50 +0000

Yay! I am glad you like it. Jay, that is very confusing about your family–did we already talk about that? I think I have probably met some of your family. Weird!

Erin, David liked Austin but I think he didn’t expect there to be cowboys there, so that was good. I think he thought it would be bigger maybe. He was pretty amused by people in West Texas, though. I think he liked people in West Texas because they were friendly but probably found the people in Austin easier to understand.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:33:30 +0000

oh crapcakes, you’re commenting system is way too hard (the link should be at the bottom). Anyways, read my comment on your disney section and with the powers of your mind move it here.

Basically it says “you scared me, apologize to my parents”

By: John

John — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:05:36 +0000

Wow. I’m just impressed there is a place called Muleshoe. That’s quite impressive. But then again Olivia, you do live in England. The land of placenames like Wetwang, Penistone, and yes, Aylesbury.

I liked the doughnut shop story a lot. I could see that happening in rural Ireland. Except for the manager getting worried about photographs. Maybe he thought you were a spy from Krispy Kreme!!!!

By: Meredith

Meredith — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:14:03 +0000

I lived in Ft. Stockton for awhile as a kid, and I had a “pet” tumbleweed named Chubs, b/c my mean parents would never let me get a dog. Muleshoe looks like Ft. Stockton, although I’ve never heard of it.

Also, that donut shop story? Priceless.

By: erin

erin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:32:52 +0000

Oh, man, Muleshoe reminds me of my stomping grounds, Philadelphia (MS, not PA). As much as I am not a small-town girl, I really love going back and experiencing that sense of peace and easy living.

What was your boyfriend’s reaction to the difference between Muleshoe and Austin? My english friends were a little disappointed in Austin, I think, that there were less cowboys and more hipsters. (I should have taken them to CCC so there could be a mix of both.) Luckily, I also took them to Brenham so that they could experience small-town Texas. And Blue Bell ice cream, of course.