There are desolate places. Places with not a whole lot going on. Places with one traffic light and miles and miles of open space... and then there is Amarillo Texas, that makes those places look like Center City Philadelphia. Or so we thought. When we got to the KOA in Amarillo i don't think any of us had high exceptions. The pool is brand new.. the comfort stations are actually pretty nice.. and the sight itself is wedged between Amarillo Airport, which has the occasional Southwest Airline flight coming and going?! and a rail yard with freight trains miles long rolling through. The guy that showed us to our sight was an interesting story, he and his wife live out of their RV and they roam from KOA to KOA taking jobs for three months to make money and get a free slot to park. Very nomadic. Tomorrow the trip to New Mexico ends. We are going to see some cliff dwellings before we reach our first hotel of the trip. Today was another easy day of travel through much of Oklahoma which was oddly scenic. We had dinner inside the RV tonight because the setting sun made eating outside a bit difficult.. as the sun went down the breeze was so nice that it almost seemed a bit chilly out.
I may have been a little older than your kids now, but back in the day, Me, mom, and dad drove to the Grand Canyon.....in dad's F350 cargo van......yup, not a camper. I can relate to the desolate areas. Freight trains. Even 18 wheelers that were blown over onto there sides from the whipping winds coming aross the open land with nothing from stopping them.
ReplyDeleteBTW.....you joked about how you brought corn and there is NOTHING but corn fields in some areas......dude.....you KNOW Jersey corn is the best!!!!
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