After encountering a lot of road construction in the area around the northeast corner of Ft. Worth, we are so happy to finally be heading northwest toward Amarillo along U.S.Hwy. 287. The landscape changed quickly from rolling, wooded hills (thickly populated), to immense expanses of flat, very flat, farmland (thinly populated). Many gigantic fields of lush green winter wheat!
Before we made it to Amarillo, we also noticed the strong aroma of cattle "feed lots"! That really makes you want to head out and get a beefy hamburger! Guess that's why we stopped in Amarillo, fueled the car, popped into a McDonald's for a couple of McDoubles!
Following that, we headed west on I-40. There are a lot of billboards along the interstate highway!
Wait a minute----we left Edgewood hours ago! But here is the exit for Edgewood, New Mexico!!
By the time we arrived at Tucumcari, N.M. it was after midnight, and we were pretty beat! We quickly found a Holiday Inn Express (after checking at two other hotels with no vacancy), and luckily they had a vacancy. It was worth every penny of the $130 room charge just to lay down on a comfortable bed for a few hours! The next morning, after enjoying breakfast supplied by the hotel, we were back on the road by 6:30 a.m., heading toward Flagstaff, Az. Airport to pick up my brother, Don, who is going with us to hike down into the Grand Canyon on Monday.
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