Day 8.0: Cadillac Ranch

First stop out of Amarillo...Cadillac Ranch just a few miles west of Amarillo. The Cadillac sculptures have been vandalized over the years...most parts stolen, and thick with graffiti. next stop was the Palo Duro Canyon...the second largest canyon in the USA after the Grand Canyon. pretty impressive...lots of red in the soil and rock. It was still cool in the morning, so we had a comfortable visit...driving the loop for about an hour in the canyon.

We drove through Clovis, New Mexico on route 60...very flat land...and when your at some elevation you can see about 50 miles or so. The railroad track was on our left, as we're all the grain silos. We must have seen about 50-60 grain silos in about 100 miles. They are large vertical structures that you see 10 miles away, so you know that's where the next little town is. It reminded me of traveling south of Paris in the wheat fields around Chartres Cathedral...and then all of a sudden you see the tower/steeple of Chartres appear. Along route 60 in Texas there were endless cargo trains...some of them about a mile long hauling containers from China. Then route 70 all the way from Roswell (only a few aliens sighted) to Ruidoso was a beautiful landscape with a big sky...eventually turning into mountains with alpine forests. Our betting on the horses at Ruidoso Downs gave us close wins...2nd and 3rd places...but since our bets were to win, not place, we had no winnings.