Still in Texas

As I have said before, Texas is huge! The next morning, we woke up in our refridgerator, went out to start the truck so it could heat up, packed, brushed our teeth, and headed out. The first stop on the agenda was a gas station (nothing new there). Then it was on to Cadillac Ranch!

If you are not familiar with Cadillac Ranch, there is a pasture just off Route 66 in Amarillo with ten Cadillacs burried half way in the ground. I've seen it in movies and pictures since I was a kid and always wanted to see it in person. By this time it was somewhere around 30 degrees outside and the wind chill had to be somewhere around zero. Well, that is the speculation of a Floridian. Due to the life threatening temperatures, we were not able to stay for very long, but we did have time to make our presence known. We found a few cans of spray paint on the ground and went to town.

Then, it was back to the truck to thaw out like the south Floridians that we are.

ps (Thank you Danielle for all the tour books! That is the reason we found these places!)

After visiting the Ranch, we headed to the Palo Duro Canyon - the second largest canyon in the US. I have never seen anything that comes close to this place. I have seen it in movies and in pictures, but you really can't grasp the beauty and vastness of the canyons unless you see them in person. Palo Duro's claim to fame is a spire in the middle of the park called Lighthouse Spire. It was an awesome, interesting, educational 3 mile hike to the famous attraction. I think I got us lost twice along the way before Eric wised up and stopped listening to me saying, "hey! check this out over here!"

This picture was taken when we could first see the spire. As soon as we saw it Eric and I imediately got excited thinking about the adventure in front of us. If you look in the middle of the pic, really closely, you can see our destination.

So, after we ran here, walked there and Eric got pelted by a few rocks, we made to the Lighthouse!

If this thing was still under water, it would certainly be a lobster hotel - kind of like Hotel California - they check in and don't check out. ; )

There was definately a sense of satisfaction upon arrival. We chilled for a few minutes and enjoyed the scenery.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Here are a few that come to mind: astounding, breathtaking, astonishing, overwhelming, inspiring, wondrous, peaceful, extrodinary, majestic, blah, blah, blah, etc...