Sunday, November 29, 2009 - Lubbock TX
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Google map of cotton growing region northeast of Lubbock TX, November 29, 2009
I made good time today, taking US 62 through the cotton growing region of the Texas panhandle, heading southwest toward Lubbock.
Those fields you see in the Google map above are mostly cotton. Each "section" is a mile square, 640 acres, most divided into quarter sections of 160 acres. This years harvest is nearly finished - the fields are brown now with stiff stubble and boxcar sized bales of cotton, colorfully tarped, waiting to be ginned, stray fluffs of cotton drift along the roadsides.
Yet another observation on my front tire issue
It rained off and on for most of my travels today and there was little sign of the tire bouncing (I stand corrected - it's not "hop" - it's "bounce") I am concerned about. I'll have to think about how this may be a clue to the cause of the bounce.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Lubbock TX
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #861, 4215 South Loop 289, Lubbock, TX 79423 - (806) 793-2091
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - good signal
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Observational Learning
[Learning by watching] is called observational learning. When it comes to evolutionary fears, as well as to many other areas of learning, animals and people learn by watching what other animals or people do, not by doing something themselves and learning from the consequences. I have the impression this lesson hasn't quite been absorbed by most educators. You read that hands-on learning is best, but that may not always be so. Obviously evolution has selected for strong observational learning in animals and in humans.