Santa Fe to Amarillo - Too Boring for Words

We've been spoiled over the past couples days with the beautiful landscapes we've driven through.  As much as we wished it could have continued, today we had an abrupt end to the eye-candy we had enjoyed seeing.  There was very little variations in vegetation and with no elevation changes the road just went on and on.  At some points the road curved to meet up with another highway or to go past a small town, but for the most part it was straight, and flat, and utterly boring.  It didn't help that we've gone through all our downloaded podcasts (thanks Ben for all the suggestions, they've been awesome) and listened to our new cds (BTW the Divergent soundtrack is awful.  It's so bad we started listening to it in New Mexico and it did not leave with us when we drove into Texas).  On a happy note though, it did get much warmer!  Turns out Texas is a lot warmer than New Mexico and we appreciate that :)

We did make one stop along the way at the Cadillac Ranch which has been around since the original Route 66 days.  We saw people adding to the graffiti already there (it's an evolving art piece), but the fumes didn't agree with Lizzy so we just enjoyed the art from a distance.

When we got to our hotel in Amarillo we found out that the ventilation system was actually on fire so we'd have to wait for the firetrucks and police to leave before going to our room.  We decided to take our dog and go find some bbq while we waited for the hotel to stop smoking.  Texan bbq is amazing!  Smoky and tender and fall-apart goodness :)  We're now hanging out at the hotel and relaxing for the evening.  Everything seems to be back in order at the hotel and thankfully nothing burnt down. 

Oh!  We did realize that we had our first casualty of the trip; Lizzy's bed was left in Santa Fe.  We think it might have been left in the parking lot of the hotel, but we can't be too certain.  Thankfully she's a spoiled dog and actually has two beds so we have a back-up.  Let's hope everything else makes it to Toronto with us!

Tomorrow we head to Tulsa, Oklahoma (home of Hanson! Is Tulsa known for anything else?) where our Food Network recommendations were all pizza places.  Never thought of Oklahoma as having good pizza (thought it'd still be bbq), but we'll do the hard work of eating the pizza and reporting back to y'all about it tomorrow night.