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In Amarillo there’s a famous restaurant called "Big Texan
Steak Ranch" It’s on the cheap east
side of town where I would have stayed anyway, and a mile walk from my
motel. 
If you can eat a 72-ounce steak in less than one hour, you get
it free. If you can’t, it’s $72. A
touring cyclist might qualify as one of the most likely to accomplish this
feat, but seeing that huge slab of beef, I passed.
Once out of town today, I discovered again how truly big and
open and unsheltered the Texas panhandle is.
Huge flat farms with an occasional farmhouse in the distance
A wheat field ripe and ready for harvest.
the panoramic shot speaks louder than words
ReplyDeleteI didn't mean to sound so meek in my last comment, but that last account was one that tempted the inside me to turn on my heels (hmmmmm .... weird image) .... even if the cloud reflections tempted the artist in me to relax into the adventure ... I was left with a longing for warmth and comfort and the chit chat of Amtrack passengers. Come Chicago, you'll please me with that one. In the meantime, RIDE ON and keep us posted, as you will. LOVE the photo of you and your 'small' steak.
Weather the last two days has been lovely in the Big Texas Panhandle, as if it could be no other way. Soon comes Oklahoma, then Missouri, known for fierce storms and pretty songs like Surrey with a Fringe on Top. The clickety-clack of Amtrak will tempt when it draws near, like a buffet table to a starving okie in the thirties, escaping the dust bowl with no money. Maybe I keep going for them, disconnected as that seems. Because my father had them over for dinner and their stories of persecution by Californians once they reached the promised land.
DeleteThat's a great picture of you getting ready to eat dinner. The red door bunch misses you, abandoned for red meat.
ReplyDeleteI will not abandon that great group at the Red Door for red meat, unless I happen to be in Texas at a famous beef restaurant, almost thinking I do the big one, the 72-ounce.
DeleteHaving lots of fun with your brave stories of your travels.
ReplyDeleteGood to see you here Mary. Lets do a Texas steak together sometime.
DeleteI thought the first photo appeared similar to North China looking toward Mongolia, but I realized that the Great Wall should be there. Then I thought of an imagined wall of the current debate, but I couldn't come up with a decent joke.
ReplyDeleteA wall built in China to keep foreigners and enemies out, now serves as tourist attraction for those who want to hike on top of the wall and ponder its history. Someday, a wall along the Mexican border, if it is really built, may attract tourists who walk on its top wondering why such a thing was ever built.
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