From Amarillo TX to Santa Fe, NM

Coming from the East, Tucumcari - on Route 66 - was yesterday and it is today a great place to stop

New Mexico's long and endless roads to the West (I-40)

An old and still functional gasoline station in New Kirk in New Mexico, located on the real old Route 66

Beside the gas station was a little small, tiny post office where we had to bring a big order to send out to one of our good customer

"Be beware of the - sleeping - dog"

in front of the souvenir shop and gas station! He not even opened his eyes :)

Pretty little Chapel on Route 66 - it is no more used for sure: the walls were broken and no windows and doors left and the tower looks close to the one in Pisa, Italy :)

Little houses on the rail road line from Tucumcari to Santa Fe

Look these roads...!
It's I-84 from Santa Rosa to Santa Fe

I love these streets!

Still snow covered mountains in the Sangre de Christo region

Finally we arrived in a warm and sunny Santa Fe, the Capitol of New Mexico.

Hi my friends,

We made it to beautiful Santa Fe! It's summer here, nice and warm - a good feeling after many days of fog and cold in Amarillo! We will go out soon to explore Down Town, to see everything as possible and to see the Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams Museum, for sure. I will show you some photos tomorrow, as always :)

I wish you a wonderful day!
Susanne and David

Is this the way to Amarillo?

This is how it was looking the next morning in Albuquerque: SNOW!

On the road again to Texas and in between was Tucumcari...

...and also a ghost town...

If you know where Tucumcari is, you will know too that we were on the legendary "Historical Route 66" again - as you can see in this picture

...or this one: a Mexican Restaurant...

.... or this pretty "Blue Swallow Motel"...

But I think this business is "out of order" since long time already

Tucumcari is known for all the beautiful painted murals from the high time of Route 66

Riding cowboy mural on Route 66

I like this one very much!

Front and site walls of this Motel are murals

Back in Texas again!

And the landscape went FLAT - flat as flat can be...

but, with beautiful warm colors

and pretty clouds at the Bridwell West Ranch

Texas cows

The only way to the horizon

....if eaten in one hour!!!... can you do that...? :))

The Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo. Tomorrow I'll show you more photos from this funky place

Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U.S. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm, and it consists of what were (when originally installed during 1974) either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a number of evolutions of the car line (most notably the birth and death of the defining feature of early Cadillacs; the tail fin) from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. The piece is a statement about the paradoxical simultaneous American fascinations with both a "sense of place" — and roadside attractions, such as The Ranch itself — and the mobility and freedom of the automobile.

Hi my friends,

I hope you've enjoyed my photos from our trip to Amarillo and we are still sitting here.
I have photographed today also a wonderful sunset on the prairie - that will be online also tomorrow.

Thanks for the comments!!
Susanne