Up and Down Route 66

So I drove west on Route 66, stayed in New Mexico for a few days, and drove back east to Oklahoma. Spending a couple of days in a heart hospital and another couple in a rehabilitation hospital has a way of making you think deeply, profoundly and philosophically about your life, how you're living it, and your choices. Choices about health, about religion, about family. But that's subject for other posts. This one is about something else. For a long time, I have been the photographer of interesting signs. Turns out there are quite a few on Route 66. Here are a few that I caught on camera.

I wasn't aware that we had a state animal, but apparently we do. Interestingly enough, there were no buffalo (actually, they're bison) anywhere to be seen. I imagine they were out roaming, possibly playing with the deer and the antelope. Oh, as you can see, the sky was cloudy all day.

Now this is something you don't see every day. It's out by the cadillac ranch west of Amarillo.


I wonder if they offer high speed internet.

There used to be a sign near there that had an arrow pointing down the road and it said, "Bates Motel, We Have Showers." I've always regretted that my camera was inaccessible at the time.

I think this is my favorite from this particular trip, however. And I have to ask. Who would eat at a place with this name?



"Yes, I'll have frog legs as an appetizer, followed by some livers and gizzards, some calf fries, and maybe some of that chili pie for dessert." Yum, yum.