Friday, May 3, 2013

Cadillac Ranch & RV Museum

Did you guess where I did my graffiti?  I did it at Cadillac Ranch!   There are ten Cadillacs that are buried head first in the ground and people are allowed to paint on them.

The cars from the highway.






I think I should paint here.



There are cows here.  I am not sure I like this.
Yes, there were cows walking near us.  We were not thrilled about that.  Dad said it would be okay.
Dad decided to help me paint.  I wanted to do a paw print, but Dad thought my name would be better.

Dad added Scout's name.  We wanted to add "Two Greyhound Town" to it, but Dad said it was too windy to write all that.


It looks good!
Scout agrees, but thinks her name should have been first.


You can even see it far away!
We gave our paint can to a couple who came without one.  They thought that was pretty cool.

As promised, here are more photos from the RV Museum.  The link has more photos from the museum that you may find interesting.

 
1948 Flexible from the movie RV


Inside RV movie RV.

1936 Alma

Inside 1936 trailer.

Inside 1937 Kozy Kamp

1937 Kozy Kamp
 

1953 Fleetwood

1963 Airstream

1966 Kenskill

1976 Argosy


1975 Itasca - this is the very first one every built.

Inside the Itasca

More inside photos of the Itasca

Kitchen in Itasca

1975 Itasca



Pop Up - I don't have a year. Can't read the sign. Might be 72.
 
1946 Teardrop




We had even more adventures today, but I will have to wait for another day to share those.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who LOVES Being On Vacation





















RV Museum

We forgot to tell you a funny that happened on our way here on Wednesday.  We were stopping for gas in Colorado and we took the wrong exit.  It looked like we were headed for a toll plaza.  Mama said "Oh, no!"  Dad told her to get money out.  It turns out that we were headed into a restricted area.  BOL!  There were soldiers at the plaza.  Dad told the soldier "Well, I obviously took a wrong turn".  The soldier said "Follow me."  He then yelled "HALT TRAFFIC!"  All the traffic stopped and we did a U-turn.  BOL!  It was pretty funny.

The winds are calm this morning, but yesterday, it was crazy.  We had a binder on the dash that blew out of the motor home when we opened the door.

Scout and I think having our own dog run is really neat.  We are going to miss it.  We don't think the next place we are staying even has a public one.  :-(

 


We have our own supply of bags!

Here we are in the public run.
 

Our site.
 The folks visited the Jack Sisemore RV Museum.  This is a FREE museum that is located behind the Jack Sisemore dealership.  The folks thought the museum was a lot of fun.






 

The museum also has motorcycles.

The side item is an air conditioner.



 The most "famous" RV that they have is from RV movie with Robin Williams.  It is the bus that Jeff Daniels' drove.
Dad in the RV from the movie RV.


Visitors are allowed to climb in and touch most of the RVs in the museum.  There are just a few that they ask that you not climb in due to their age.

Mama took a ton of photos of the inside of the RVs, but that might be boring for many of you.  UPDATE:  We just had a request to include some of the inside photos, so we will put those in our next post.

The folk ate at the Big Texan.  We will talk about that tomorrow as this post is getting really long.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Going To Do Some "Painting" Today.



Thursday, May 2, 2013

We Are In Amarillo, TX!

We made it to Amarillo, TX.  It wasn't easy.  We had to face a snowstorm, a dust storm and high winds for the last three hours of our trip.  The winds were so high that we had to slow down to 45 mph because the awnings on our slides were trying to come out.  They were banging and made Dad nervous.  We pulled over a few times to make sure they were okay.  It was fine once we had buildings to shield us from the winds, but that was only for the last five miles of our trip.  It took us twelve hours to get here.  We missed Survivor which is our favorite show. Mama said we may be able to watch it online.

We understand that not everyone was able to see the YouTube video that we had on our site yesterday.  It was George Strait singing "Amarillo By Morning". 

Here are some photos from our trip.

Leaving our campground at Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora, CO.

We heard they ended up with several inches.

Bear?  We didn't see any, but Mama had our bear bell ready.  BOL!

Elk...we didn't see any. 

Our first time in New Mexico.


New Mexico was a little boring at times.

New Mexico seems to have a lot of trees, but no grass.

Pretty hills in New Mexico.

Bye, New Mexico!

Texas, our second home!
Dad surprised us with a cool campground here in Amarillo.  We have our own private dog run!  It has a picnic table for the folks. There is a bigger "public" dog run that we checked out this morning.  Scout and I did some running.  Scout loves to run. 

 We took a quick walk around the campground this morning because I insisted.  I love the dog run, but I need to patrol my surroundings.  The campground is a little cluttered with lawn equipment and stuff, but the owners must love dogs to put in the private dog runs.  There are seven of them.  We have the biggest one.

We would love it here if the wind died down. It is extremely windy here. The winds are gusting to 50 mph and when they are not doing that, they are constantly blowing.  It is very noisy inside our home.  It is cold.  The high will be about 40, but with the high winds, it feels very cold.  Tomorrow is supposed to be better and we have an outing planned with the folks that should be fun.  Hint:  I get to do some graffiti.

Our dog run!

The folks are going to tour the RV museum that is here today and then they are going to eat at a steak place that is said to be a big tourist trap.  They like doing the silly tourist things

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Still Seeking Warmer Weather

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

We Are On Vacation!

We are on our way to our next destination, Dallas.  However, we are taking a few days of  vacations first. Where are we going for some rest and relaxation? Amarillo, TX! Mama started singing Amarillo By Morning as soon as Dad asked her if she wanted to go there.  I don't think he had ever heard the song or maybe it was her singing. BOL!

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is On The Road Again

Home Again - Part 3

 Well, we just realized that we didn't finish telling you about the rest of our trip home.  I don't know if we even remember the res...