581 miles? You can still see a Buc-Ees in the rearview at that distance.
Have you been to a Buc-Ees?
Hundreds of pumps. It’s a goddamned ocean of concrete and steel. You can use the main building as a shelter for a mid-sized town and have enough bathrooms. It’s a fucking department store serving as a gas station.
They’re goddamned massive.
Hundreds of pumps And no open ones because everyone parks and sits there while they go inside
Buc-ees is serious business though.
I randomly went to one a few weeks ago thinking it was just a truck stop. I was not prepared for that.
It’s just unnecessarily huge. I’ve never seen so many gas pumps in my life. Or so many toilets. It’s honestly absurd and made me feel existential dread. It’s like everything wrong with America all in one convenient pit stop. I couldn’t even enjoy the wall of jerky. Bathrooms were nice, though.
It’s good advertising. People see the funny billboard and snap a pic for social media.
But … but why?
It’s a destination “gas station”. There’s a restaurant called Lamberts that sort of does the same thing.
I’m not even sure what a “destination gas station” means. I see some big ones on our road trips, and all I ever do is stop at whatever one has a reasonable price, then take off.
Who are these for?
They’re like a super store, but also have gas and impressively good BBQ sandwiches. They sale a bit of everything. Like an ikea for road trips.
