Sun. 7/5… (Amarillo ,
TX ) Today
was a do nothing day. The park pretty
much emptied out as folks headed on their travels or probably back home and to
work tomorrow. We did decide to go back
to the Big Texan to try their breakfast buffet.
It was ok, not as good as I remember it from times before. Their cook-to-order omelettes were really
good though. We drove back home and did some laundry and watched some of our
programs we had taped. Later Janie fixed
dinner and we sat out for a while.
Tomorrow we only have a short drive to our next stop.
Mon. 7/6… (Tucumcari , NM )
Ok, we are officially out of Texas ! The drive
today was 113 miles, and very mild weather and good roads on I40. We’ve traveled I40 many times so we know how
bad this interstate highway is when it comes to the road itself, but in Texas
it was very well maintained and in New Mexico so far so good. We are now at Cactus RV Park on Route 66 in Tucumcari , NM . This is a very old park, complete with really
old motel rooms next door, that I’m guessing are shut down but we haven’t
checked. But the park is clean, level,
easy in and out and I’d stay here again when we are in this area.
Bailey liked this park. It was very relaxing!
Now the town itself doesn’t have all that
much to offer. They have a few museums
but they are closed on Sundays and Mondays.
We stopped for lunch at Del ’s
Restaurant in town on Route 66. I would
rate this high as well. Again, it’s an
old steakhouse that probably was pretty fancy when new and had the tourist traffic
before I40 but now it’s just a normal American/Mexican restaurant that we might
just go back to for dinner. We stopped
at the Big K-Mart, which is the only major store around here, and bought a few
things. As I was checking out, I noticed
my credit/debit card was missing. I knew
where I left it immediately so I called the Big Texan and they had it! Pheeww!
They were very nice and the manager offered to mail it to the house.
There’s no activity on it as of yesterday and I think I’m good but I’ll be
watching just in case. After returning
home we lounged around and planned dinner. We went back to town but this time
chose Rockin Y’s Roadhouse. They have
$5.00 burger night and the locals told us this is where they eat. Well, they were all there even though we had
to dodge the huge raindrops as we made our way in. This was also a good place to eat and we
would go back again. We ended the evening back at our rig watching the rerun of
America ’s
Funniest Videos. I had been taping these
since we missed the original showing of the Thanksgiving show that we went to
see. This was that night! We saw all nine of us (GG & Gary, Donna , Lydia
& Terry, Janie & Rick, and Gary & Jayne). I think we all looked good and we had great
seats with a lot of airtime! After they
left I had a bit of time to play with my spreadsheet and calculated that of the
5,063 miles we will travel on this trip,1,550 were in the state of Texas !
Tues. 7/7… (Albuquerque , NM )
This morning we took off and left
beautiful downtown Tucumcari behind and drove 181 miles and are now at the
Enchanted Trails RV Park & Trading Post, just outside of Albuquerque , NM .
They have set up a little vignette of period rv's which have been featured on travel shows. Here's one...
We
are here for three days. A quick report on the roads – not too bad. It seems
that they have worked on the westbound road a bit so we’re hoping it continues
as we continue westward. We have been to
this park before (it’s a Passport America park and we used it enroute on many
trips to Branson) and Janie and Rick liked it as soon as they parked. We ate
lunch in and then drove literally next door to Camping World. We picked up some
things we needed and some we didn’t. We went home and hung around the rigs
watching the weather. There were huge
dark rainy clouds to the north of us so we set out for Old Town
for dinner at La Placita. This has always been a required stop for us and we
were happy to take Rick & Janie. It
was as good as always and they enjoyed it as well. The best sopapillas! Janie has a friend who
frequents this area and has given her the name of her favorite restaurant which
we will try as well. Later we kicked
back and planned our day tomorrow. We
are driving up to Santa
Fe for the day.
Wed. 7/8… (Albuquerque ,
NM ) We didn’t decide on a time
to leave for Santa Fe
this morning so we slept in and had breakfast and kicked back and left a little
after 10:00am. We got stuck on I40 for
about 20 minutes due to a traffic accident.
Once I got off the freeway and worked my way around it we were off and
made good time in driving the 50 miles into the city. Santa
Fe architecture has never been my favorite but the town has a
certain charm and also historical influence to New Mexico culture. We found the old town square and the churches
with no problem and parked and walked around.
The girls visited the street merchants selling jewelry. Janie bought
quite a bit of stuff. Lydia only found a couple of items.
We
visited many shops in the square and found some interesting things, including a
Lucchese Boot shop. I managed to pick up
the most expensive pair of boots in the store – only $7,750! I put them down very carefully and walked
away! We decided we needed a bite to eat
and ducked in to The Famous Plaza Café.
Their menu was a little pricey but we split a chicken sandwich and fries
so it was ok. Plus we had room for
coconut cream pie! Both were very good. It also was good we stopped when we
did. A pretty good rainstorm passed and dumped pea sized hail which we got to
watch from under cover!
The
ride home was uneventful, unless you count stopping at another Walmart. We needed water and a few other things. Later we went over to Janie’s for
dinner. She wanted to clean out her
leftover pasta sauce and such so we enjoyed that.
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