Day 20: Eufala Lake, OK to Santa Rosa, New Mexico

Sign near Amarillo, Texas.

 Cross near Amarillo, TX.

 We stopped at this truck/travel center. Between Amarillo, TX and New Mexico.

 New Mexico has an impressive welcome to visitors; this sign stretches across the freeway. Also, a mile later was a very impressive Welcome Center with two staff people and a lot of information.

 These are common in our campground. One does not want to pitch a tent on top of these ant-hills.

 The Pig Out Palace, near Lake Eufala, OK, is sort of 'in-your-face' with their message. The interior of the restaurant had a lot of pig-themed items. We ate sensibly and did not do anything to regret. We did not really pig-out, so we 'got out'!

 Ummmm, this scupture was at our camp ground at Lake Eufala. Caren suggested I 'ride the bull' but you can see that this is not really possible. For several reasons.

Moon at our campground in Santa Rosa, New Mexico.

New Mexico; Land of Enchantment (their motto). We drove around 525 miles today; all of it on I-40 which is a pretty good interstate. We started the day by finding a diner close to our campsite at Lake Eufala. It was called the Pig-Out Palace and we could not resist. Some photos are attached. Crossing Oklahoma was uneventful and we crossed into the Texas panhandle. Between Amarillo, TX and the border of New Mexico we took a picture of a 190 foot tall cross which was supposed to be the world's largest but Caren googled that and found some folks in Illinois have erected a 198 foot tall cross. That's cool. We also found a truck stop which used its signs to advertise the owner's faith in Christ. We found that really interesting and made a point of stopping there. Sadly, it looked like many truckers were passing it up in favor of a Flying J truck stop just down the road. I suspect they were rejecting the first truck stop's bold statement that "Jesus is not a swear word".....that was all over the truck stop's large signs. Here in New Mexico we're about two hours from Albuquerque and plan to stop there for lunch and to ride the worlds 'longest' tramway to the top of a mountain. Then on to Arizona although we may not get there tomorrow. I like New Mexico. A lot. Red rocks. Temperature...just right. Interesting scenery. Hope you enjoy the pictures.