Tucumcari Inn

... to different decades which were accompanied by music from their era.   The 20s room was mostly trinkets, a crazy armadillo and a piece of the original road.     The 30s and 40s rooms were primarily gas stationed themed with old gas pumps, old cars and signs. The best room was the 50s room!   It was made up to look like an old fashioned diner. We goofed off in there for quite some time. Brandon even ...

... seeing was infamous "Cadillac Ranch". Too cool. A local told us this guy also has a pool table you can only see from the sky, but complete with sticks and balls. oookay... Tucumcari, NM hasn't changed much in a lot of years, other than a truck stop on I-40. Many businesses still closed for season. A very good look at how things were, once upon a road.

Got an early start today on our way to New Mexico. We travelled from Dallas to Oklahoma City, then on to Los Alamos Texas and finally made it into Tucumcari just before nightfall. Hungry we asked about a restaurant and were directed to Dean's Place where the meatloaf, mashed potato ...

... Cadillac cars buried with their bonnets in the ground and at an angle that have been painted with questionable art. Because the road was split and no easy access but back-tracking a couple of times, it was decided the glimpse of this "artwork" was enough for the travellers. A little further out along this route we turned off to travel a short distance along the original blacktop of Route 66 to take in the midway point. This is a must stop in this area. It has the exact midpoint ...

We had planned on leaving Roswell early and picking up Ti in Albuquerque this morning, but just as we were packing up we received a call from Ti that he had missed his flight. This news interfered with my carefully laid out itinerary, but it actually improved our day. Instead of rushing to Albuquerque, we were able to take our time and watch Venus beat Serena at Wimbledon. Instead of spending half the day driving west to ...

Now we officially started our Route 66 self-guided tour. We began from Tucumcari, NM with the hopes of checking out their dinosaur museum. Unfortunately, the museum was closed due to it being a Monday as well as a holiday. The rest of the city was not impressive so we decided to move on back to TX via the historic Route 66.

... still be on. We'll have to settle on seeing it in the daylight. So we are parked for the night. Don't know the plan for tomorrow yet. Sounds like Adrian, TX for lunch and Shamrock,TX for dinner. Other than that, we still have to plan it so I'll let you know.

... preparing mentally and physically for another day of driving. Google says it is 5 1/2 hours drive to OKC, plus I lose 2 hours changing time zones. I haven't had to eat out too much as I brought food with me and have been munching on it since I left. I will get on the road now before it gets too hot.

... evening I am in a little KOA cabin in Tucumcari New Mexico. While Sebastian was out defending his territory from another cat, I had a local visitor. A tarantula, I will try to send the photos of this shy creature. It wanted to come right in and say hello but quickly ran away when I went toward it. I went and got kitty away from his black ...

... the visitor's center so it was only partially Naomi's fault that the picture didn't come out. 7pm Checked into a hotel in Tucumcari NM. Not much out here, that's for sure. We went for dinner at the restaurant next to the hotel and had some Tex-Mex, why not...we'd been in Tex and now we are in Mex. The restaurant was in fact in our book, an apparent new rule of eating. We then walked back across the street to our hotel and tried to plan our next few days.