Now you go through Saint looey Joplin, Missouri, And Oklahoma City is mighty pretty.

Our plan when leaving Oklahoma, City was to travel west on as much of old Route 66 as possible. Much of the route has been lost and Interstate 40 follows where it once was.

As we passed out of Oklahoma into Texas,  FINALLY the landscape was  not  so stress-inducing-ly boreing! The panhandle of Texas is actually quite scenic in a great plains sorta way. Driving across farm land, cruising through half forgotten towns I spotted a huge road sign for the Big Texan Steak Ranch ,  tempting hungry motorists with the possibility of a free 72 ounce steak. If you can choke it down in under one hour, it is on the house. I could almost taste that steak.  It was calling my name so we could not tarry.

 

I was hungry, but was not quite ready to tackle that 72 ounce free steak unless the  ambulance ride was complementary as well? Brody and I each settled for a regular 20 oz T-Bone. I needed a nap after that, but Brody wanted to get some more road behind us, so we headed out of town after checking out the gift shop and the rest of the "Big Texan" amenities.

Leaving Amarillo going west on I 40, we spotted "Cadillac Ranch" sitting in the middle of a field. Needless to say, we stopped to inspect it. Quite a site, ten Cadillac's buried nose down in a row. The cars have been painted with so much graffiti that in places it looks like it is inches thick.

The sunset we witnessed this evening was spectacular. If  you have never seen a sunset on the plains of Texas add it to your "things to do before I die" list... absolutely jaw-dropping.