As we pulled out of the parking lot I noticed we were on reserve and could not remember when we last gassed up? Made no difference I had to find a station soon. But first thing I did was wash the car and scrub the dirt off the bottom portion of the car, wait till the end of this post. Right next to the wash was the Route 66 museum, supposed to be a good stop. It sure was, it showed how the road was built and the things going on in the decades of its use. At the end it had a nice 20 minute presentation of the road from when the old cars drove thru ruts to the building of the road, the use thru the depression and dust bowl, the demise of the road when President Eisenhower built the massive four lanner’s, thru the demise of the road and its return to rubble, until its resurgence in these later years. Again it is the Europeans who treasure it because of its continuous roads not like in there home country’s.
A really neat Conoco gas station we knew was coming in Shamrock TX. It is an art deco revival. It also was used as a gas station in the movie Car’s. The group who renovated it received a grant from the government but after the final item was refurbished they could not open the café or station except to sell an item that was not available for sale anywhere else. They had another 5 years to go before they could open. Love the government. Would have been nice to see at night with all the fluorescent lighting.
Down the road a nicely refurbished Phillips 66 station. Had to take a photo shot, these people put a lot of work into something that gives them little cash.
I thought you would like to see the cost of a gallon of gas when these pumps last worked. Bad thing is I remember this price as I was going to the east coast and followed a gas war all the way out there. that was a good thing as I arrived with 35 cents in my pocket and we didn’t have credit cards to float a loan till payday. Never thought about what would have happened if I ran out of money before I arrived at Groton sub base?
Got off on a real experience. It said there was a sort gravel part in one of the three routes you could take. All of a sudden we are on gravel. I said it doesn’t look long and it is the adventurist route. After a half mile or so there was tar again. Off for another mile or two, then the road kind of stopped. It came down to a single rut covered trail. We took a couple blocks and said not sure this is fr us. I said ahead is a cattle guard in the road lets go in and see what we can do. It was a side entrance to Tews Ranch. We were able to turn around without hitting the cow pies, fresh no less. It turns out it is a abandoned road, I agree. What would an adventure be without adventure, I said to Shirleen.
We are now heading to Amarillo and even on the side roads they let you fly along at 70 MPH on this two lane road.
Staying at a Hampton Inn again. As we walked down the hall here comes a five year old who said to her mom we saw them at the museum. She was right 50 miles or so back we stopped at a route 66 and history museum. In it there was a fire pole and she should us how it worked. They too are headed west.
The Big Texan Steak Ranch restaurant is a need to stop at location. They have a free 72 ounce sirloin steak at a dollar a pound if you can’t finish it in the hour, along with a glass of water a couple shrimp, a baked potato and some other item. Surprised us when we saw six guys sitting around the table chow-ing down on these gigantic 72 ounce steaks.
A couple of them were looking pretty full and they had more than half a plate left. This steak feed was seen on Food networks, Man and Food challenge. He finished it off and this year they have a steak named ate rim, but not that size, 20 oz sirloin with 5 shrimp. The place is packed, and on the second floor one can look down at the tables in the middle, these handled 4 to 10 or more people. We ordered, Shirleen a Fort Worth cut, smallest they had a 12 oz with baked beans and I a Big Texan Strip 16 oz – KC steak, macaroni and cheese and a Beef steak tomato.
It came out whole as big as my two fists with the top sliced off and peppered, great side dish. The cowpokes came by and asked if there was a number you would like to hear, I said something Minnesotan. He looked at me with an open grin and I said maybe something about route 66.
He came up with Willy Nelson’s “On The Road Again”. It was nice but these gentlemen were well past there prime. We left the restaurant to find our car had been bombarded by the sparrows above it who rested on a metal grate. Neat stop, C grade steaks. Jerry
As we pulled out of the parking lot I noticed we were on reserve and could not remember when we last gassed up? Made no difference I had to find a station soon. But first thing I did was wash the car and scrub the dirt off the bottom portion of the car, wait till the end of this post. Right next to the wash was the Route 66 museum, supposed to be a good stop. It sure was, it showed how the road was built and the things going on in the decades of its use. At the end it had a nice 20 minute presentation of the road from when the old cars drove thru ruts to the building of the road, the use thru the depression and dust bowl, the demise of the road when President Eisenhower built the massive four lanner’s, thru the demise of the road and its return to rubble, until its resurgence in these later years. Again it is the Europeans who treasure it because of its continuous roads not like in there home country’s.
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