Adler's Midwest Meandering Spring 2021

 We had a great travel day, but we were both glad to land for the night.  We are in Amarillo, TX at the Oasis RV Park, just for an overnight.  We called the bakery at Casa Blanco to see if they had some day old bread for us, as we knew we were too early to get fresh, when we got there.  Much to our surprise, they only take orders now, and they are booked a month out.  So, we didn't get our Indian bread that we really like.  I think Covid and Easter played into them being out of bread today.  We are seeing all of the I-40 areas in a serious drought, and the weatherman in Albuquerque said that they hoped for an early monsoon season.  They had a fire in Bosque, just south of there yesterday, but they must have gotten it out, as we didn't hear anything today.  That could be very serious for the Albuquerque area.  Another thing we saw on tv last night that piqued our interest, was that they are giving lots of different promotions for people to get vaccinated.  One that I heard said they would give $100.00 worth of groceries if people got vaccinated. They also said they would laminate your vaccination card for free.  We were told not to laminate it, because we can use that card to add our vaccinations at a later date, which we think we will be getting.  One more thing on New Mexico.  We were informed a few years ago that if you want to buy Native American items at a trading post in New Mexico, the only Native American owned stores are in Gallup and they are owned by the Richardson's.  The other trading posts in that area are owned by the Iranians.  

We we traveled I-40 in New Mexico, we passed the Old Laguna Pueblo and Missions Village and that is where Jim's sister, Virginia stayed and worked with the Native Americans for 13 years.  She lived in a lean-to attachment to the white adobe church on the hill.  I took this from a moving motor home.

Good-bye New Mexico and hello, Texas!  The roads seemed to improve once we hit Texas, so that was very welcome.  We always pass the CAFO's when in this part of Texas and we always wonder what direction the wind is from.  Sometimes, it's has such an odor that a person can hardly breathe.  It is blowing pretty well today but no smell.  

This is Cadillac Ranch, which is near our RV park, and Geo-caching has a Virtual Cache there.  We also picked up a letterbox cache not far from here.  There were so many people with children there and they were spray painting these old cars.  I wonder how many layers of paint they have on them.  It was a mess.  People just don't teach their kids to pick up after themselves anymore.  Cadillac Ranch was invented and built by a group of art-hippies imported from San Francisco.  They called themselves, The Ant Farm, and their silent partner was Amarillo billionaire, Stanley Marsh III. He wanted a piece of public art that would baffle the locals, and the hippies came up with a tribute to the evolution of the Cadillac tail fin.  Ten Caddies were driven into one of Stanley Marsh's fields, then half-buried, nose-down, in the dirt (supposedly at the same angle as the Great Pyramid of Giza).  They faced west in a line, from the 1949 Club Sedan to the 1963 Sedan de Ville, their tail fins held high for all to see in the empty Texas panhandle.  They were erected in 1974.  I took this information off the cache page for Amarillo's Ranch Cars.  Tomorrow we head to Oklahoma.