Well, been a shorter day today, Texas hasn't got much rt66 left so we had to do a lot of time on the Interstate.
From the Best Western this morning we were already on rt66, but after about half an hour were met with a dead end sign and signs directing us onto the I-40, though at that time we did see a classic car at the mouth to a ranch (with a rt66 sign so we almost turned down the driveway!)
Our first stop of the day was at a rt66 and old town outdoor museum. We went to this but we had only been traveling for about an hour, the sun was very hot and we welcomed just having a break. It took us over an hour to get round it, it was informative on how things used to be in the hey day of rt66 and in the area, lots of old clothes, toys and cowboy/rodeo pictures.
When we set off again we thought we were a lot further on, then found where we actually were, which was very disappointing due to the extreme heat. We continued on driving through Shamrock and McLean which were two very sleepy/ghost town places. In McLean there was the Barbed wire Museum as featured on Billy Connolly, which was actually very good and is also the home of the rt66 association so had some general rt66 displays, we also bought a couple of Route 66 sodas!!!
By now it was lunchtime but the place we planned to eat was a steakhouse in McLean but it was closed mon and tue! We carried on and ended up just having a muffin (taken from breakfast at hotel) and a packet of crisps plus lots of water!
We arrived in Amarillo about 430pm and were feeling the need for food, and needed to look at a map to work out where our hotel was so turned up at Baums ice-cream parlour and had a V nice 'nana split. We then were at our hotel nice and early. We're now settled and are going to have an early night so we can get off early to see the Cadillac ranch tomorrow.
Greetings from the 'mother road'
C & C x
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