Texas Panhandle!
We made it to Texas! Our first real stop was Cadillac Ranch. 10 Cadillac, nose down in the dirt, spray painted for years (the paint is soooo thick). It's quite a fun installation. There is another one (we missed) that is made of VW's-next time. I also saw a "personal" installation made of kiddie cars. Drove past it and didn't have time to take a picture. I've also seen info on one that is set up like Stone Henge. So many interesting sights. I guess we can't see them all but we can try.
There was even a trailer selling souvenirs and spray paint. The area was really well maintained and lots of security around.
Texas Panhandle
and Palo Duro State Park
The Texas Panhandle is FLAT! We saw a lot of cows. We saw quite a few trains. And lots of wide open space. Dean was commenting on how flat it was and then we arrived at Palo Duro State Park!
Palo Duro is the second largest canyon in the United States (we were just at the Grand Canyon so we saw them both). We were able to drive to the bottom of Palo Duro and camped there for two nights. I enjoyed the perspective of being surrounded by the canyon.
Nice campsites. Our neighbors from the Alpaca Farm were also our neighbors at Palo Duro. Below is the view from our campsite. There were cardinals and other birds flitting around for entertainment.
The camp store had Root Beer Floats!
Behind the store there was a bird blind with lots of birds enjoying the seeds provided for them and water to play in.
A nice visitor center with informative exhibits. This one was about the CCC that had built many of the facilities during the 1930's, including the visitor center.
We left Palo Duro and found that Texas was still FLAT!
We did find some entertainment along the way at Midway (between Turkey and Quitaque and between New York and Los Angeles)
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