Traveling through North Texas brings back a lot of memories and I would have liked to see the little town of Electra, but the hwy now goes around the town and since we are pulling a large RV, we didn't get a chance to do that.
We had thought of spending one night before reaching our destination of Amarillo, but we decided to go all the way.
Our reservations for Palo Duro Canyon was not until the next day, so we spent one night at Amarillo Ranch and RV Park. It is a nice park as far as RV parks go. The sites were a little further apart than the typical RV park.
On to Palo Duro Canyon. July 22, 2015
Palo Duro Canyon
One day we hiked up to the cavity in the rocks.
These (three) Longhorns live in the Palo Duro Canyon. They are T-Bone, Omelet and Brisket.
Our reservations were for three nights, we wanted to stay the week so when we checked in, the ranger changed our reservations, gave us the number of nights we wanted and changed us from 30 amps to a 50 amp site. Stagecoach campground, site 133. But, oh my, did we have a grasshopper invasion!
We had a beautiful view of the canyon and Stagecoach is not far from the amphitheater where the musical play TEXAS is presented.
We went to the chuck wagon dinner before play. The food was good and the play TEXAS excellent.
We enjoyed the week with visits to a couple of museums. The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and the American Quater Horse Museum.
One day we visited an RV museum. It was interesting. One of the RVs was the RV bus that was used in the movie "RV" starring Robin Williams.
I don't know, but do you think this just might be the first motor home?!!
The Palo Duro Canyon is just beautiful! Pictures do not do it justice.
We met a "Horned Toad" on our way down. Glenn had never seen one. When we lived in Texas, we saw them all the time.
We call them "horny toads". They of course are not toads but of the lizard family.
This canyon was of course used by the American Indians but during the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, Col Mackenzie drove them from their home. Mackenzie captured 1500-2000 ponies and killed them. Without sufficient mounts or supplies, the tribes could not survive. I think the Indians were horribly treated and the slaughter of those ponies was horrible as well. Legend has it that the ponies can still be heard in the canyon.
This area was settled by Charles Goodnight. He was responsible for preserving the bison herd in that area of the country.
He also had herds of Longhorns.
Beautiful pictures love the post.
ReplyDeleteWow! It's beautiful there! Looks like it's a bit warm. What have the temps been like?
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