Tuesday, May 8, 2018.   On the way from Albuquerque to Amarillo we had a little truck trouble. It turned out to be nothing, but it caused us to spend a night in Tucumcari, NM. What a sad little town. It has such an intriguing name but is in reality a dying place. It does have a very good BBQ place called Watson’s BBQ.

     We finally made it to Amarillo about noon the next day, and we finally got a chance to go to Palo Duro Canyon. What a beautiful place!  We had hoped to go early in the morning so we could hike some trails there.  However, because of our unexpected stay in Tucumcari, we only had the afternoon for Palo Duro. The Canyon was much bigger than I expected. In spite of the 95 degree weather, we took a little half-mile hike down to a stream.  Jax took a little swim and then we hurried back to the truck ( the sun really beats down off of the canyon walls).  We continued driving through the Canyon, stopping every so often for pictures. There are some really nice campsites there, but the road going down to them would be a little iffy for our big-ass RV. We returned to the RV and let Jax run and play in the off-leash dog run there. He loved having all of that green grass to play in after 3 months of desert. Off to OKC for a week.