Texas

Beautiful Texas sunset

Tumbleweed pool

There are a lot of unusual sights along Old Route 66 Texas!

There are many of these abandoned "ghost towns" along old Route 66.

We have always heard about everything being bigger in Texas, but the only "big" thing we saw was what they claimed to be the biggest cross in the US.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 Driving Day: Left Gallup, NM 8:15 am, 26F, clear. At 3:45 pm we entered Texas, finally found warmth! 73F and sunny. Stopped at Overnight RV Park in Amarillo. The temperature dropped drastically after sunset, with a hefty wind blowing. A note on the door of the office instructed that we not connect to the water as they were expecting freezing temperatures overnight. Even with temperatures in the 70’s during the day, there was still snow and ice in shady places. The swimming pool was filled with tumbleweeds and ice! We expected to be near the RR tracks, but were not expecting that we were directly under the landing path of the local airport. Commuter jets flew directly over us at about 100 feet above us, about every 8-10 minutes until about 11:30. ( Of course we didn't discover this until we were already set up in the park!) We don’t know if they stopped, or we were just so tired we didn’t hear them anymore.