Holiday Motel Clayton

We left home this morning at 8:45.  We waited until later to leave so that we wouldn't hit the morning traffic through Fort Worth.  The weather is sunny and hot.  Temperature showed 104 at the highest.  We stopped for lunch at a roadside picnic area and fixed a sandwich in the 5th wheel.  We stopped just before Quannah on Hwy 287.  We arrived at Dalhart around ...

We are barely into Colorado and the weather has cooled down and the scenery is so very pretty. It's really just another travel day on the way to our final destination of Banff and Jasper with a short stop at Glacier National Park, the loveliest of the national parks we have visited.

This blog is mostly for family so others may find it a little boring!

... make the fences.   Overall it was one of the most unique museums I've ever been to. Once we returned to the road we came across a rest stop that looked promising. The entire time we were in Oklahoma the rest stops were pitiful. Texas rest stops are insane. They have gorgeous views, wind turbines, playgrounds and texas shaped grills. Yes that's right, texas shaped grills.     Everything is bigger in ...

Took some roadside pictures and also visit the Capulin Volcanoe. We both hiked to bottom and back to earn our medallions for our sticks. He actually hike the over 1 mile all around the top of the cone!

After that we drove to Raton for some mexican food at El Matador, covered in green chili! Christopher said those were the best sopapillas he has ever had.

Made the mistake of not filling up when I turned onto a U.S. highway. Just to play it stay I stopped at the Gladstone Country Mercantile. I prepaid for my gas and she told me to pump it to 3.6 gallons. I've never measured out my gas on the honor system out of an above ground tank. There is a first time for everything!

... to a very cold fog, we bundled in four layers of every material we had. Fifty degrees sounds balmy after a Michigan winter, but not at 75 mph for 8 hours. So we again hit the super-slab heading for Amarillo, TX. A very low ceiling kept it cold and misting most of the day, but any real rain again went around us. Trying to make up a little time the only ...

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 ...

... memorabilia around the walls and floor with simple things like an old 50's style electric stove to the original wooden coke cases with a few old full coke bottles in the little timber squares to hold the bottles. Outside on an old pickup truck, we were invited to add our names with pen to leave our mark, took a while to find a spot on this well signed old truck, but we did. Armed with a lot of photos to prove we were there (or maybe to assist in our memory loss as we recall ...

We had hoped to make it a bit further - however, the Yukon had a leaky tire that needed to get fixed and cost us about 2 hours dealing with that. It turned out to be a good thing! We missed a severe storm with hail and heavy winds near Tucumcari, NM - which was our original destination for the night!

... and the other half driving east to see historic Route 66, we were able to drive straight to Tucumcari. We ate at a diner, cancelled our reservation at the Blue Swallow Motel, and checked out Teepee Curios. We even had time for the Mesa Dinosaur Museum, which was a lot of fun. With plenty of time still left in the day, we started out from Tucumcari back west. At this point, we were both really feeling the ...