{"id":3024,"date":"2009-12-14T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T00:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2016-12-16T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:46:08","slug":"from-l-a-to-west-texas-travel-blogger-lena-katz-takes-on-the-southwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/from-l-a-to-west-texas-travel-blogger-lena-katz-takes-on-the-southwest\/","title":{"rendered":"From LA to West Texas, travel blogger Lena Katz takes on the Southwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3023\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3023\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3023\" title=\"Lena Road Trip\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Lena-Road-Trip.jpg\" alt=\"Orbitz travel blogger Lena Katz \" width=\"464\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Lena-Road-Trip.jpg 464w, https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Lena-Road-Trip-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orbitz travel blogger and Away.com guest blogger Lena Katz <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Join Orbitz travel blogger and Away.com guest blogger <strong>Lena Katz <\/strong>as she hits the road on a quest across the American Southwest. Bored with Los Angeles, Lena&#8217;s covering thousands of miles of great American highway in a borrowed Volkswagen Touareg TDI &#8220;Clean Diesel&#8221; SUV, with only her dog for company.\u00a0 The classic Western novels of Larry McMurtry are her inspiration, and her ultimate destination is the small West Texas town where McMurtry owns an antiquarian book shop. From alien lights in the sky to buffalo jerky breakfasts, find out what happens when a California girl leaves L.A. <a title=\"Away.com travel blog\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.away.com\/travel\/2009\/12\/southwest-road-trip-arizona-texas-larry-mcmurtry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more on the Away.com travel blog.<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Orbitz Related Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Texas vacations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/hotels\/United_States--Texas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Texas hotels<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Los Angelesvacations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=losangeles-vacations&amp;cnt=PKH\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles vacations<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"California travel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=CA&amp;cnt=OVI\" target=\"_blank\">California travel<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Lena 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