Amarillo, Texas -

We have had 2 nights here in a lovely hotel where we managed to get a suite so for the first time in a long time Mum and Dad get their own bedroom!
This is cowboy country in the 'Lone Star State', the 2nd largest state after Alaska. You can get a free 72 oz steak dinner here IF you can eat it (and all the sides) in under an hour! (We didn't try).
We have travelled on and off parts of the famous Route 66 which runs parallel to the freeway that replaced it.
We visited the whacky 'Cadillac Ranch' which consists of 10 battered cadillacs upended in a field in the middle of nowhere. Since 1974 when they first appeared they have sometimes been re-painted for a commercial or photo shoot. Jonty found some discarded aerosol paint cans and managed to squeeze enough paint out of one can to write his name on one of the cars until the next 'makeover'.