Sunny, hot, a good travel day and another horsey fix for Suzie. In the southwest seems more horses than dogs!

Where are we today ?

Tucumcari New Mexico

       We had a very nice quiet spot at the Walmart last night only 2 other rv's parked far away. The wonderful part too was the 30 or so trucks park on the other side of the huge store, We did not hear a thing. Quite mild this morning and the nice thing about staying here for the night, the store is open 24 hours and I can go for my early morning walkabout when I am ready, 5:45 this morning. At least the lot has lights.

all these trucks on the other side of the store

        Now computing and coffees all done we are ready to hit the road when the sun was shining 7:30. All good travelling and not a lot of trucks on the interstate. By 10:30am stopped at a rest area and just had to put on shorts and T shirt was getting quite warm, then we actually had to run the air conditioning in our coach it was that warm.

so nice to be on the road again,
we sure do love it !        

 

just running through the Texas Panhandle

Texas rest are and Tornado shelter

reminds me of the Canadian prairies

interesting leaning water tower

         Passed by the Big Texan in Amarillo 11 am, but did not care to stop. for 3 reasons, not  hungry, too early, and too expensive for our liking. The challenge here is to eat a 72 oz steak and all the trimmings in an hour by yourself, that meal is $72.00 prepaid, you get a refund fund if you can do that! If you care CLICK HERE   to check them out. It might have been fun to stop for a snack but did not. Just can't imagine eating a 4.5 lb steak AND all the trimmings, but a lot of people have done it.

The BIG TEXAN

         Next we looked for the Cadillac Ranch but really did not feel like stopping, you can see the pics on the WEB. HERE.  Noticed gas in Amarillo for $1.82  a gallon but not ready for fuel yet.
        Next was the New Mexico Welcome centre.

          Spotted this 1935 Auburn convertible, (it is the real thing too not a replicar) Chatted with the people and they have been touring in this from Michigan, now that is awesome !

a beautiful welcome centre

         Then on to the Flying J in Tucumcari NM. We arrived here  just after 1 pm, but we are now in the Mountain Time zone so was just after noon. Have been through 3 one hour time changes this week so we getting way ahead of ourselves.  But we got our long travel in and decided just to hang out here and enjoy this wonderful sunshine and hot weather, love it, love it ! A few walkabouts the property and getting some exercise and enjoying the sunshine. We even got some reading in too. A short travel day tomorrow and we think we will settle in for  week, the forecast looks amazing!

1940 Chrysler

      Oh and another horsey fix for Suzie thats 2 days in a row. These people pulled in beside us with 4 horses in a horse trailer on their way back to Nebaska after a rodeo in Oklahoma.  They need to take the horses out to exercise (they get sore legs) every 3-4 hours and we got the treat right here.

Suzie checking out the horses

they heading out across the field for a walk

     Interesting staying here for the afternoon and night. If we outside  (and we are often) people stop and chat. Lots great people out there and have some great stories to tell. Not only the Horse trailer but on the other a nice fellow (retired truck driver) delivering RV trailers, This one from Elkhart Indiana to Albuquerque New Mexico, tomorrow, he is our neighbor tonight.

wonderful scenery around here too

          Now we have to eat so an very easy supper tonight. reheat our chicken pot pie from 2 nights ago, just popped in the oven for about an hour at 250 degrees last 15 minutes without the tin foil, heated up perfectly. And of course had to have a fresh salad with that too. We have the ingredients.

Tasty? Yep it was.

341 miles today

       We are getting to where we want to be and can slow down our travel days for a few months. The southwest is here, the temps warmer and the scenery amazing. We will spot cowboys everywhere now.

        Glad your stopped by again and hope your day was as wonderful as ours.,

Check out the interactive map below to see where we have been this Fall and Winter..