Daily Archives: July 9, 2015
Amarillo by . . . eh, Afternoon
Afternoon Since we had a 300 mile trip to Amarillo today, and just like yesterday, we would lose another hour moving into Central Daylight Time, we wanted to get an early start this morning, or at least earlier than normal for us. Plus we also wanted to make a fuel stop at the Flying J about 5 miles down the road.
The Flying J website said they had 8 RV lanes, but they didn’t. They only had 2, and those 2 were out of service because they were redoing the concrete pad around the pumps. So I had to circle around the parking lot, back out on the street, and then into the truck pump area.
The fill-up went smoothly, and with my RV Plus Card, I got 7 cents off the cash price, ;for a cost of $2.72 a gallon. Not bad.
Jan had followed me in the truck from the park, and after I was finished fueling and pulled around front and off to the side, she pulled in behind me so we could hook up. But first we went inside to pick up a couple of Cinnabon’s for the road.
While I was there I also checked for green diesel antifreeze, once again with no luck. All they had was red and pink/purple. The pink/purple is red antifreeze with an SCA charge added. Still no good for my use.
We were finally on the way about 9am Albuquerque time / 10am Amarillo time. It was so cool and overcast that I didn’t fool with the genset / transfer switch to run the AC’s We again just had the fans on, and windows open, and it was very nice. In fact, when I checked the temp in the coach at a rest stop about noon, it was still only 73 degrees inside. I did start up the genset and let it run for about 20 minutes just to check it out. Of course since we weren’t on shore power, the transfer switch didn’t switch over, but at this point I really didn’t expect it to.
So, after a nice, smooth trip, we pulled into the Amarillo Ranch RV Park a few minutes after 3pm. Since we had reservations, we were quickly checked in and guided to our site. We last stayed here in 2010, and they still had us in their computer system,
After we got everything set up, and we rested up, we headed out for dinner at Coyote Bluff Cafe about 4:30. Coyote Bluff is a ramshackle burger joint that Nick and Terry Russell told us about. We first ate here about six weeks ago on our way back to Illinois for our Memorial Day family reunion.
It was really great then, and maybe even better this time, since we hadn’t just driven 750 miles, and weren’t dead tired like last time.
I started out with a cup of their Green Chile Stew, which before La Salita last night, would have been really good. But the Green Chile Stew at La Salita was so much better, it overwhelmed tonight’s by comparison. So tonight’s was just good.
As far as burgers, I had the regular Bacon Cheese Burger,
while Jan got the Mushroom Cheddar Burger with Grilled Onions.
These things were delicious, but so big that we both felt like we were going to have to unhinge our jaws like a python to get our mouth around it.. We ended up kind of eating our way in from the top and the bottom just to make headway.
And along with our burgers we got a basket of half and half Fries and Onion Rings, both made in-house, and really good.
Coyote Bluff only has about a dozen tables and is usually on a wait. We first got there at 4:50 and finding the parking lot empty, realized they didn’t open for dinner until 5. So we checked out a couple of nearby auto parts stores for antifreeze (still no luck).
When we pulled back into the parking lot at 5:01, there were almost a dozen cars there, and we got the last open table. Now that’s busy.
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Thought for the Day:
I suspect there should be a Happy Face on this sign.
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