We spent the day in the Panhandle Plains Museum. The musuem is 3 floors of history about the panhandle of Texas. It has everything from indian relics to oil well relics, ranching to gun collections and about 6 rooms of western paintings. By spending the day, I mean spending the day. It took us from 9:30 in the morning till 3:30 in the afternoon to get around the place. We were both rather impressed with it and would recommend it to anyone passing through here. While in the area we had to visit 2 of the local landmarks, The Big Texan, home of the72 oz. steak and the Cadilac Ranch. The steak is free if you can eat it and all the trimmings in 1 hour, if you don't you have to pay for it. Not sure what a 72 ozer would cost, but I bet it ain't cheap. They say many have tried but few have done it. We didn't go in, just stopped to take the pictures. Then we went to the world famous Cadillac Ranch. 10 Cadillacs buried nose down in the middle of a really big field. Over the years people have written all over them and drew all kinds of things on them. I have no idea what would have prompted a person to bury cars like this, but they did. You walk right up to them through a gate at the road. While we were there, there was a steady flow of people stopping to take pictures, just like us...lol. We will head on west tomorrow.
Till next time
Duane and Louise
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