ENGLISH AIR FIELD

While in Amarillo TX, we visited the Texas Aviation Historical Society's small museum at English Air Field, Amarillo's original municipal airport. We were told that the UFO-looking craft was part of the original experiments to determine how to land a craft on Mars. The sign to the right of the "flying saucer" discusses how the disks were launched by balloon from Roswell NM and dropped over White Sands Missle Range NM!

CADILLAC RANCH

The Cadillac Ranch is on the western outskirts of Amarillo TX and can be seen to the south from I-40. To visit the cars, exit off I-40, park on the service road and walk through a field to the cars. Be sure to take a can of spray paint and your camera!




















"Cadillac Ranch" by Bruce Springsteen:

"Well there she sits buddy just a-gleaming in the sun
There to greet a working man when his day is done
I'm gonna pack my pa and I'm gonna pack my aunt
I'm gonna take them down to the Cadillac Ranch

Eldorado fins, whitewalls and skirts
Rides just like a little bit of heaven here on earth
Well buddy when I die throw my body in the back
And drive me to the junkyard in my Cadillac

Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark, shiny and black
Open up your engines let `em roar
Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur

James dean in that Mercury `49
Junior Johnson runnin through the woods of Caroline
Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am
All gonna meet down at the Cadillac Ranch

Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark, shiny and black
Open up your engines let `em roar
Tearing up the highway like a big old dinosaur

Hey little girlie in the blue jeans so tight
Drivin alone through the Wisconsin night
You're my last love you're my last chance
Don't let `em take me to the Cadillac Ranch

Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark, shiny and black
Pulled up to my house today
Came and took my little girl away
"

PALO DURO CANYON

PALO DURO CANYON IS NEAR AMARILLO TEXAS. IT IS A VERY INTERESTING PLACE TO EXPLORE. YOU CAN DRIVE DOWN INTO THE FLOOR OF THE CANYON.

PALO DURO CANYON STATE PARK: http://www.palodurocanyon.com/

WEATHERFORD WIND ENERGY CENTER

While driving from Oklahoma City to Amarillo on I-40, you will see the Weatherford Wind Energy Center, near Weatherford OK.