Quick drive through the pan handle of Texas where we passed through Amarillo. We stopped at the Jack Sisemore Traveland RV Museum which is in a back building at the Traveland RV Sales. It's a worthy stop if you are passing through Amarillo. They staff were friendly and welcoming. Great variety of old camper trailers. We even got to see one of the first Airstream trailers. Before they were produced commercially, the inventor sold the plans for building your own. There was a caveat that you had to build to all the specs in the build plan. They were beautifully designed.
It was crazy cold and windy but we found it. The Cadillac Ranch is a classic Route 66 landmark. It consists of ten Cadillac cars which are half buried nose down in the ground in a field. This public art is the work of the Ant Farm and was created in 1974. In recent years it has repeated been spray pained over and over again by visitors. The grounds are littered with spray cans.
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| Cadillac Ranch, Route 66, Roadside America, Amarillo, Texas (c) b.steichen 2019 |
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Slug Bug Ranch -- also known as Bug Ranch, Bug Farm, and Buggy Farm -- was created in 2002. The five wrecked Volkswagen Beetles, buried hood-down in the ground, were the idea of the Crutchfield family, who owned the Longhorn Trading Post and Rattlesnake Ranch next door. Great photo ops here especially with the old gas station and ghostly adjacent buildings.
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| Slug Bug Ranch, Roadside America, Conway, Texas (c) b.steichen 2019 |
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| Slug Bug Ranch, Roadside America, Conway, Texas (c) b.steichen 2019 |
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