April 28, 2011

April 28, 2011

Headed south to the town of Canyon. On the campus of West Texas University is the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum. It is in an enormous building with three floors of artifacts and collectibles. We spent about 4 1/2 hours there. It has Texas Panhandle history, cars, windmills, geological information, dinosaurs, fossils, rocks, Petroleum information, costumes, Native American items, a pioneer village, pottery, and many other items.

Returning to I40 we stopped in the Rt. 66 town of Conway to photograph the Slug Bug Ranch, Volkswagen Beetles nose down into the earth and spray painted with graffiti. It was first put in as a copy of Cadillac Ranch, which is on the west side of Amarillo, several Cadillacs nose up and sprayed with graffiti. If you visit either site, take a can of spray paint with you.

We passed the largest cross in the Western Hemisphere and the leaning water town near the Rt. 66 town of Groom.

Entered Oklahoma, where the land became rolling hills and red dirt. Passed several windmills and an old Rt. 66 bridge.

Pictures from today. PPHM, the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Chipping Sparrow, Slug Bug Ranch in Conway TX and the Largest Cross in the Western Hemisphere and leaning water tower in Groom TX, rolling hills in Oklahoma and an old Rt. 66 bridge.