We got up and packed around 8 before enjoying the
continental breakfast and hitting the road again. All day yesterday Devin had
been complaining about feeling a little achy and stuffed up. Today it hit me. We had
obviously been out in the cold and rain for days, so we figured it was the aftermath of that. Later that day Dustin
texted us and said he got what Cassie had; our reply “Us too.” Outside of not
feeling well the driving was really uneventful.
Devin is a big fan of Man vs. Food, where the host takes on
eating challenges across the country. We were coming up to Amarillo, home of
the Big Texas 72oz steak challenge. You may be familiar with said challenge.
This Big Texas is housed in Amarillo, TX, right where we were going through.
After doing some research on Yelp and the MVF website, we decided against the restaurant
with the challenge and instead went to the Stockyard Cafe. The Stockyard Cafe was
featured on MVF and reviews on Yelp as “Best Chicken Fried Steak anywhere.” As
you may have picked up in past blog posts, Devin LOVES chicken fried steak.
We followed the gps directions into a slightly questionable
part of town and then into a stock yard. Right in the middle. This little cafe is
attached to the stockyard management building. We had to sit in the smoking
section (although no one was smoking) because the place was packed. We split
cheese fries and he got the chicken fried steak and I the hamburger steak.
Well, unfortunately neither was anything to write home about. His was good but
he still thinks the one in Hill City, SD is the best. This place does give free
dessert but we were so full we opted out.
Just outside of Amarillo is also the Cadillac Ranch. Again,
you may be familiar:
Can you find Mini-B?
Thanks to Angie for showing us RoadsideAmerica.com or we
would have missed it! No road trip down I-40 is complete without a stop there,
it’s iconic roadtrip!
Eventually we crossed through Texas and into New Mexico.
I-40 follows old Rte 66, but much of the mother road is gone now. We passed
through Albuquerque and were feeling good (as far as driving was concerned) and
decided to keep going. We stopped in a small town past Albuquerque at a Wal-Mart
and got Alka Seltzer Cold & some cough drops. We had our sights on Gallup,
NM, right near the NM/AZ border. We finally arrived and stopped at a travel
station just off the interstate for another one of those coupon books to make
our hotel (which we’d picked out and gotten the coupon hint in online reviews)
a lot cheaper. After checking in to the hotel we went to the
truck stop at the exit and got their soup and salad bar. It was really
delicious, especially after such a heavy lunch. By the time we made it back to
the hotel we crashed out.
Today we traveled 708.8 miles across America for a total of
4,020.3 miles on leg 2 and a grand total of 14,545.0 miles across America.
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