Day 19 - Saturday, April 16 - Pecos Pueblo to Amarillo

 

Out of Santa Fe... with a Santa Fe engine on the line...

 

         

 

Pecos National Park, New Mexico. I walked the Pecos Pueblo, the old gateway between the Southwest and the Great Plains. Pecos Pueblo is on the old Santa Fe Trail...

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

 

Out of Pecos to the Pecos River. I followed a stretch of the Pecos River down to the edge of the southern High Plains and onto the Llano Estacado. During this 40 mile leg the terrain changed from Southwest high desert to a broad plain, leading on to Texas...

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

       

 

 

Tucumcari, New Mexico. In Tucumcari I found the best murals of the trip...

 

       

 

   

 

Crossing the Texas line...

 

     

 

The distant Caprock Escarpment...

 

Proceeding eastward across the Texas Panhandle...

 

         

 

Amarillo and The Big Texan...

 

       

 

       

 

 

 

This courageous fellow was trying to conquer The Big Texan, but alas, he was not even coming close. He had around 13 minutes left on the hour clock with enough left on the plate to feed a family of four!

       

 

I intended to enjoy myself in the casino after dinner, but feeling a bit stuffed, I decided to step out to Bigfoot to rest a little first. The next thing I knew, it was the next day...