Cadillac Ranch and The Big Texan…

Leaving Wichita Falls, Tx we headed west for several hours until we pulled into our campground in Childress, Texas. We stopped at Childress RV Park, a city park that was only $15/night for 50A/W. We didn’t find a lot to do in town but it was another town we always passed through and figured this time it deserved a visit.

The park’s campground was the highlight of town. It has a nice greenspace surrounding a lake with its own disc golf course.on it. Of course we had to play and it was a nice but not overly challenging course. We planned to visit the winery downtown but when we drove over to it we discovered it was closed on Mondays. Oh well, maybe another time…

The next morning we left Childress and headed further west to Amarillo, Texas. Here we stayed at a Passport America park called AOK RV Park and it was, well, just AOK. We stayed two nights so we could check out the town of Amarillo.

Normally we just drive through Amarillo and as we leave town we usually pass by the Cadillac Ranch in Soncy, Texas. This time we planned to actually visit it. It was created in 1974 by Stanley March III who for some artistic reason took 10 Cadillacs  and buried them nose down in concrete at the same angle of the great pyramids.The cars are in line and there is one of each Cadillac model from 1948 to 1964.

Each is completely covered in graffiti which is actually encouraged. There were several people there spray painting their messages or art on the cars while we were there as well.  I am not sure what inspires someone to want to paint their initials on something but, hey, to each their own… I only wish the spray painters would take their empty spray cans back with them when they finish painting.

We also checked out downtown Amarillo which appears to still be a normal business district. There was very little renovation occurring in downtown. The highlight of the downtown area was a brewery called Sixcar Pub Brewery. We stopped in for a refreshment and found it quite good, especially their IPA.

On the way back home we also stopped in at the Big Texan Steak Ranch though we had no plans to attempt eating the 128 oz. steak in an hour so we could get it free. Actually we visited because we heard they also brewed their own beer. Most of the ones we tasted were about average but they did serve a very good barrel aged stout.

We will be finally leaving Texas and moving into New Mexico on our next move west…

NOTE: We are in Albuquerque New Mexico until after labor day and then on to Lake Abiquiu…