Albuquerque To Amarillo

It's a Snowy Morning

Well what do we do now? Do we stay or do we go? The bad weather was supposed to be in the Sandia Mountains north of us heading towards Colorado. Since we are heading east, radar clear and forecasts along the route better than Albuquerque, we decided to go for it. Good plan except we didn't remember the foothills leading out of the city. Oops!

Leaving Albuquerque

After white knuckle driving for about 35 to 40 miles, the snow abruptly stopped. One side of an underpass was snowy and the other just wet. Very weird.

No more snow

Today was all about threatening skies and clouds.

Almost to Amarillo

Love these old windmills

Last year I almost missed the Cadillac Ranch.  Today I was on alert and got this shot.  Such a weird thing to do.  Why bury all these cars?  As per Wikipedia, it is a public art installation and sculpture created in 1974 and sponsored by a local millionaire.  This sculpture has been featured in movies and music videos.

Cadillac Ranch

Our Lakefront site at Fort Amarillo

Apparently it rained very hard before we arrived.  We have our very own lake on our site.  Good thing the site is very long.  This park has a small catch and release fishing pond complete with a waterfall.  Fort Amarillo has an indoor pool, hot tub and a gift shop.  I'll check them out tomorrow.

Between our late start and time change, we didn't get set up until about 6pm. So we went to a local steakhouse for supper.  The restaurant was recommended by the park office.  Good eats and very reasonably priced.

Oh, last night was our first access to cable TV for over a month.  What luxury!

To sum up our adventures today.  We're here, we're safe and we're staying until Thursday.