2024 Road Trip - Day 6 Amarillo TX to Gallup NM

 March 16, 2024

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Day 1 Toronto to Fort Wayne

Day 2  Fort Wayne to St. Louis

Day 3  St. Louis

Day 4  St. Louis MO to Tulsa OK

Day 5 Tulsa OK to Amarillo TX

Weekly Recap Casey Coffee Co.

Day 6

Departure 8:15 

Weather 4C cold and overcast and never really got any warmer, even dropping to 0C

Arrival 4 PM we gained an hour

States  Texas New Mexico

We chose to have breakfast at the Hilton. In the past we would get complimentary breakfast as Gold members, however, they have gone to a cash credit system giving various dollar credits to be used in the hotel. See St. Louis, Here we got a $20 room credit which had been applied to our dinner last night.

We've driven this stretch before.

Vega TX

Adrian TX

New Mexico

Here's a fun link to a trip to New Mexico in 2006.

Need a job?

Tucumari NM Dec 2012

The name was taken from Tucumcari Mountain, which is situated near the community. Where the mountain got its name is uncertain. It may have come from the Comanche word "tukamukaru", which means to lie in wait for someone or something to approach. A 1777 burial record mentions a Comanche woman and her child captured in a battle at Cuchuncari, which is believed to be an early version of the name Tucumcari.

Tucumcari still had a lot of the old Route 66 motel signs.

It was a dark and gloomy morning so most of these were taken from the car.

Click here for a post about Tucumcari in 2012 and 2013 and another here.

While much has changed in Tucumcari, Del’s, and its iconic Hereford-bull-topped neon sign, has remained a constant, and a must-stop along Historic Route 66. It opened in 1956!

We did eat here once.

Empty deserted buildings are common in these small towns.

A post about The Blue Swallow.

The above links show a prettier picture of this.

The link below for Moriarty NM explains the Whiting Brothers history.

What a shame! There is a better photo of it in the links above.

They now have a lot of murals. But since I have never posted them on Monday Mural you will have to check back!

Click here to visit Santa Rosa, we had stayed here in 2013.

A sign of the times.

Do you know what this is? A blade for a wind turbine.

All of a sudden we had to pull into the right lane, the road was covered in debris. That transport on the far right had a mangled grill on the front where he had fit the pickup truck.

What!?!?

Cline's Corners 2012,2017 and here.

Moriarty NM 2017 

YUM! We first ate this on our trip to the Grand Canyon in 1998 in Cameron.

Continental Divide in 2013, a much better photo! 

We also crossed the Continental Divide in Wyoming.

GALLUP

Gallup 2012
Gallup April 2017

Checking was very slow, only 1 clerk. I sometime do the app check-in but in these same places I prefer IRL check-in so that I get my water and ensure that I get my credits. As well I get the hours of operation for the restaurant.

There was a Navajo wedding taking place, lots of kids running around.

Dinner was awful, well, mine was. John enjoyed his steak, I ordered the steak sandwich and sent it back. It was pre-packaged frozen dry roast beef slices. I got the steak instead.