Jan Bush and Kim Whittenberg - road trips and air painting Published September 23, 2026 at 1:00 PM CDT Listen • 5:00 People talk about how vast and beautiful Texas is, but sometimes, the only way to truly understand that vastness and beauty is by a road trip.Jan Bush describes how she and her cohorts in college drove from Wichita State University to attend a conference in El Paso.Then Kim Whittenberg talks of how she experiences the beauty of West Texas by Plein air painting.We recorded Jan Bush's road trip and Kim Whittenberg’s story of painting in Midland during our recent West Texas Roots road trip.