Our Spontaneous Trip!

Mountain coming off La Veta Pass

Route 66 Sign

    Saturday morning I woke up at 7 a.m. and COULD NOT go back to sleep! I was super annoyed since it was my day off! So I woke Preston up about 8 and told him "let's go" and he replied "go where?". I said I don't know or care I just want to go! So we got up and got ready, I packed a bag just in case we decided to spend the night somewhere. We headed out at about 10:30 that morning. Preston already had an idea where we were going but I didn't really have a clue, I just sat in the passenger seat and enjoyed the scenery.

Old tractor

     After a few hours I saw a sign that said "New Mexico the Land of Enchantment". I was a little surprised just because I really wasn't paying attention to which direction we were going. Husband and I started to get hungry so we stopped in a little town then we decided to keep going. Finally we hit Clayton, NM. Preston had lived in this little town for a few years when he was younger. We drove around town and husband told me stories of his childhood. It was super cute because you could see his eyes just light up as he talked. Most of his family is from Clayton and still live there to this day. Preston had me take pictures of a few things then we decided to drive to the town (if you could even call it that) where his "granny" is buried. We drove for just half an hour or so and came upon this sign that said Hayden. Preston informed me that it is a town. This  so called town consisted of a trailer house (his cousin lives in now), his granny's house, a cemetery, a church, a school and also a gas station. All of the buildings were run down and in shambles. Again, Preston told me stories about his summers in this little town. Then we decided to go to the cemetery where his granny and other family members are buried. Being out in the middle of nowhere was so relaxing and calming. There was a little breeze and you could only hear the birds chirping.  After driving around and looking at everything there was in this little town, we both decided we still didn't want to go home.

72 oz steak

The house Preston lived in

Cadillac Ranch

Us at Cadillac Ranch

     We continued south to another place where husband had lived when he was young. This town was Dalhart, TX. When I saw the Texas sign I flipped out because I had no idea how we ended up in Texas! It really hadn't seemed like we had been driving that long! Husband and I pulled into Dalhart and Preston took me around town. The town was pretty neat because they had BRICK streets! Yes BRICK it was so awesome.  The town wasn't big or anything special but it was just nice to see something different. When we got done with Dalhart, both of us did not want to go home yet. Husband asked "Have you ever been to Amarillo?" and I hadn't so he drove me there! I love Amarillo! It is such a quaint little city. As we were driving around we decided we'd spend the night since we wouldn't be able to see all of Amarillo since the sun was going down. I booked us a room downtown Amarillo. It was awesome!   We stayed at the Marriott courtyard, it was an awesome building. We were on the top floor and we could see all of the lights from the city and we also could see all of the club hoppers. Before the sun went down husband had mentioned the Cadillac Ranch. I had heard of it and husband had driven by it many times but never stopped. So on our way to dinner we decided to stop at the Cadillac Ranch. It was pretty interesting. There were a bunch of Cadillac's buried in the middle of a cornfield with free roaming cows. We could pick out who was a city person and who was a country person. The city people were terrified of the cows, not to mention it was super entertaining to watch them! After that we got back in the car and headed to the restaurant "The Big Texan". This restaurant is famous for their free 72 ounce steak.... It's only free if you eat all 72 oz of steak, a baked potato, 3 jumbo shrimp and 2 jalapeno's in an hour! When we got there, there were 4  people attempting this feat, none of them finished though! We had a good time just looking around at the gift shop and all the people. Husband and I decided to call it a night after that. In the morning we woke up and headed for home. Preston took me down the Route 66 since I had never been on it, that was pretty cool to experience that piece of history. Him and I were total tourists. We stopped at almost every single shop down Route 66. I kept seeing signs for Hard Rock Cafe in Albuquerque. I was super excited because I think Hard Rock Cafe has good food and they are fun. So I told husband we HAD to go, we pulled up to the Hard Rock and could not see a cafe anywhere so we went in. Sure enough it was just a casino and hotel. By the time we got out of the casino I think I had emphysema (thank you Colorado for your non-smoking laws!). I was super bummed but we decided to go to Olive Garden which was the next best thing!
     After eating dinner we headed home to get ready for the start of our work week! This trip was really fun! I got to learn so much more about my awesome husband, not to mention he is really nice to travel with because he is so knowledgeable about so many different things. I learned a lot about him as well as a lot about the different states! Thank you hubby! 

The church in Hayden, NM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preston hanging from the Texas sign!