ROUTE 66, STAGE 6: YELLOW - TUCUMCARI

If in the motel or in the motorhome where you are you have not had breakfast in conditions ... there is no better place than the The Big Texan, which in addition to a restaurant with breakfast, lunch and dinner, where you can eat for free if you dip the 72 oz veal fillet (in exchange about two kilos) in less than an hour (the record is in 4 minutes!), it is a kind of Museum with a lot of cachivaches: a Zoltar, a wooden chair and a giant cowboy boot, a shooting game with shotguns, most disconcerting pictures, a dinosaur with cowboy boots welcoming you ... let's say it's the perfect summary of Route 66.

Also if you arrive here at the end of the day there is also a motel where you can stay (if you find availability).

The day before we also stopped by visiting the city of Yellow, and its famous historic street Sixth Street, which may be one of the most beautiful on the route. We don't really stop to see any of the venues in detail, we just pass by there at 15 miles per hour, contemplating the buildings on both sides of the road as if we were in a tennis match.

At the exit of Amarillo there are two fundamental stops, the first is the 2nd Amendment Cowboy and Cadillacs, where we met a group of 21 Dutch who make the entire route from Chicago in Harley! See you at our first stop and we will continue to meet you along the way in each of the following. Next time we do it on two wheels! On this site you can see three Cadillacs driven by three picturesque characters.

A few meters away is one of the most iconic images of the route, the Cadillac Ranch, where there are 10 structures of old Cadillacs parked in a somewhat strange way. At the entrance of the park you can read in a sign "It is completely forbidden to paint and use graffiti in this area", as you have guessed, people pass this restriction through the lining. Either with their own boats or taking advantage of those that still contain some paint of the hundreds that are lying on the ground, the rock paints, without knowing what, on the corroded sheet of these poor grandmothers. Do not expect too much if you plan to leave your printing press here, probably in 5 minutes someone will have covered it with another masterpiece. By the way, if the day you plan this visit gets up in the rain ... go for j ... gone ...

Texas gave us its last surprise: the intermediate point of Route 66. It's in Adrian, and here you'll find a Café where the Pixar team was inspired to create the Flo's V-8 Café at Radiator Spring in the movie Cars. 1139 miles separate us from Chicago and the same from Los Angeles. It is a good place to replenish energy (but do not get too full that next comes a bomb!) And visit the store next door, where a very nice lady and her dog will treat you very well.

We leave Texas to enter New Mexico, we put the radio of the big one in some Latin channel and gosarlo with this environment father!

A totally unexpected stop that became one of the best visits so far is the Russells road restaurant, between Adrian and Tucumcari, already in the state of New Mexico. You are at a service station with a Subway, but best of all is your Museum free! They have about a dozen restored old cars where, if you like the engine, you will probably drop the drool like a newborn. In addition to cars it has a lot of merchandising and memorabilia that will drive you crazy!

And his restaurant is handsome handsome! You know, those brightly colored upholstered sofas, round stools fixed to the floor along the bar, menus that look like an impressionist picture ... And the important thing: good food at affordable prices.

Tucumcari It has a funny name, impossible not to stop by. But, in addition to the name, it has one of the streets with more signs of Route 66 We have seen so far. Without stopping to stop at all, some of them are the restaurant, the curiosity shop with its entrance in the form of a very peculiar Indian tent of Tee Pee, the Blue Swallow motel with its mythical sign and a couple of exhibition cars, the restaurant Mexican La Cita with his huge hat, and especially a lot of very cool murals! For that if we take the ass out of the seats.

Here we spend the night at a service station, closer to Los Angeles than to Chicago, but there is still a long way to go. Today we have followed Interstate 40 West, you will see that it has no loss and that the departures are well marked.