Dry, Hot Texas

Amarillo, Texas – Tuesday June 14, 2011

We had a great visit with Frank’s Dad. As usual we ate too much and will have to really cut back on the amount we eat for the next few days to get back to normal. We celebrated his Dad’s birthday (June 18) with a great steak dinner at Zentner’s Daughter. Dad wanted to organize the apartment a little bit, so we consolidated his 2 computer setups into one and freed up some floor space in the living room. It was good to see Nick and we thoroughly enjoyed our afternoon visits. After busy days we took advantage of the great sunset view over San Angelo,TX from Dad’s 10th floor window.

We were reintroduced to Edna, Dads friend, and in fact had several meals with her. This is the restaurant in the apartment building where they live.

We didn’t want to turn into smelly fish, so after three days of visiting it was time to hit the road. (You know, fish and company begin to stink after three days). The temperatures had been in the triple digits every day we were there. It was time to seek cooler weather. So after one more big meal out, a breakfast of pancakes, eggs, sausage, and toast, we hit the road. But first we had to stop by Walmart to top off with the cheapest diesel fuel we have seen on the whole trip at $3.63 a gallon. I’m afraid that’s the last time we’ll see it at that price.

The invisible cat makes an appearance. Taz finally decides to come out of hiding. It was only temporary. After all she has an image to maintain. Although in her usual mode the image she’s maintaining is invisibility. Her expression conjures many captions.

Mocha, the travel cat, takes going down the road in stride. Doing 60mph or sitting still, naps are not to be missed.

Even though heading north sounded like a good idea, so far the cooling effect is negligible.

The wind is pretty strong as you can see. Here is a dirt storm we had to drive through. Visibility got down to a couple of hundred feet before we got through it.

The fields are tilled, but there is no sign of anything growing. Has nothing been planted, or is it just too dry?

We arrived at the Wonderland RV Park in Amarillo, Texas right at 6PM. We called ahead to make sure they had space for us. This park is right next to the Amarillo Zoo and the Tascosa Drive In Theater. The zoo we visited last time we were here, and the movies didn’t start until about 9:30PM. That’s almost past our bedtime. We could see the screen from the RV Park so we walked to the entrance of the Drive In to see what was playing. X-Men and Bridesmaids. It was about 9PM when we walked there and the movies hadn’t started yet as it wasn’t dark. Surprisingly there was already a pretty good crowd.Too late for us! Back to Big Guy.

BG Miles Today	317	BG Total Miles	1794
Eat Out $	125.13	BG Total Fuel $	892
Entertainment $	0	Total Camping $	153.79
E Miles Today	0	E Total Miles	263.5