Hard Amarillo Highway

Lunch at the Trolley Stop cafe in El Reno, OK. Back on the 'bump, thump' road to the Twenty-Eight Pony Bridge which featured in the film "The Grapes of Wrath" - Granpa Joad died here. To Elk City and the National Route 66 Museum. Then the ghost town of Texola, with the widest main street anywhere, and across the stateline into Texas. Saw the Leaning Tower of Texas, a tilting water tower built as a gimmick, and the large cross both in Groom, TX. Camping at KOA in Amarillo, TX. You can order supper at the office and a guy comes whizzing up in a golf cart from the Kowpoke Kafe and delivers your dinner to your pitch. We pitch our tent in a pea gravel "tray" which is supposed to drain if rains - I hope we don't have to test it. A stretch limo with bull horns is cruising the campground offering a free ride to the Texas Steakhouse - home of the free 72oz steak - you have to eat it all! Sitting in the evening sun watching freight trains, aircraft landing at the local airport, and huge RVs arriving towing a car far larger than the smart. Annette is talking to Persephone in Scottsdale, AZ on her mobile phone to arrange to meet up later in the trip. I'm chugging on a Bud Light - it'll never replace beer!