{"id":31779,"date":"2023-02-08T14:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T19:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31779"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:00:52","slug":"31779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31779","title":{"rendered":"On the Road?  Buc-ee&#8217;s For All Your Travel Needs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z020823bucees1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re driving and you need gas, a clean restroom, food or drink, then you cannot do better than Buc-ee&#8217;s. My guess is that if you have a Buc-ee&#8217;s anywhere near you, you know about them.\u00a0 But in case you don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z020823bucees2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Buc-ee&#8217;s is what you would get if you took a huge convenience store, added a bakery, a kitchen for breakfast, lunch and dinner items, a gas station with dozens of pumps, restrooms with dozens of individual stalls plus a worker who is dedicated to keeping each of them clean, multiple fountains for soft drinks of many flavors, sections for snacks of every kind, a wall of jerky of all types, plus books and other items you&#8217;d find in an ole country store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Buc-ee&#8217;s are currently located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.\u00a0 New locations are coming to Alabama, Colorado, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee.\u00a0 We have two in Florida.\u00a0 When the closest one was being built, I didn&#8217;t understand the excitement.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s a gas station for crying out loud,&#8221; I thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once it was built, I visited and understood the appeal.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a one-stop shop for all your traveling needs.\u00a0 You get cheap gas with virtually no waiting because of many pumps.\u00a0 There are all kinds of snacks available.\u00a0 If you need breakfast, lunch or dinner, they have you covered.\u00a0 The brisket sandwiches are most popular, but I&#8217;m partial to the turkey sandwiches.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a Coke or Pepsi fan, both are available as fountain drinks.\u00a0 I usually choose an Arnold Palmer (lemonade &amp; iced tea mix) that is also on the fountain.\u00a0 Oh, and a fresh cinnamon roll from the bakery is a bonus!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z020823bucees3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s funny seeing a person on their first visit to a Buc-ee&#8217;s.\u00a0 You can spot them a mile away.\u00a0 They have the look of a kid visiting a theme park for the first time.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re traveling and a Buc-ee&#8217;s is on your way, plan a stop.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re driving and you need gas, a clean restroom, food or drink, then you cannot do better than Buc-ee&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31782,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31779\/revisions\/31782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}