Heading east from Amarillo isn’t much different from arriving from the west,
with a few interesting sidelight.
Paralleling Historic US Route 66
With more commercial buildings in decay since being by-passed by I-40
An intentionally tilted water tower (we’d passed heading west several years ago)
No idea what this represents
Then, as the song goes,
“where the wind comes sweeping down the plains …”
and, is wasn’t hard to see where the prevailing winds come from …
the SOUTH!
For most of the day we were buffeted by 20 MPH winds with higher gusts occasionally making it challenging to stay in our lane!
Other points of interest included:
Walking an off-leash dog along a remote section of I-40
Hilltops where the fragile vegatation has given way to red clay and rocks
Sheep
More Historic Route 66
Flat ranch and farm lands
Astronaut General Thomas Stafford’s F-4 Phantom Jet
Hitchhiker staing out of the sun
Garth Brooks’ home town – in the Yukon … Oklahoma, that is
Our first Texas Longhorns … although in Oklahoma
We loved this trucking line’s logo
This evening we had dinner at a local Pickles Restaurant with Larry Kelly, one of my first cousins whom I had not seen in years and whom Debbie had met only once many years ago. It was great fun reconnecting and reminiscening about our family, family homes and those we in our generation who have apssed away. It was extra special as of my sixteen first cousings, Larry reminds me most of my dad! Hoping to get together with he and Susan, his brother, Don's widow.tomorrow evening.