You could be visiting beautiful Palo Duro Canyon State Park, or passing through as others have mentioned. You could, like I was many years ago, be doing field

You could be visiting beautiful Palo Duro Canyon State Park, or passing through as others have mentioned. You could, like I was many years ago, be doing field work at Pantex as part of your Master's thesis. The people in the Texas Panhandle and Amarillo in particular are, in my experience, just as nice and welcoming as anyone else - present OP excluded, of course.