- While there are remote areas of Central Texas, even in the 1970s cities such as Odessa, Midland, Abilene and Lubbock were all far closer than Amarillo. As Texans from San Antonio, the group would have known that and traveled to one of those closer locations.
- Presumably they wanted to get as far as possible from the cultists before getting the authorities involved. Given that apparently Texas was swarming with murderous devil worshipers in the movie universe, this seems like a wise idea.
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