Today was an easier ride than yesterday, around 213 miles. But – still very hot. Marshall snapped a shot of his dash display when we stopped for gas. I actually saw 107 on mine for quite a while.
We started out the day at the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo. It’s hard to know what to say about this. I mean you hear or read about this attraction and you think, well, we are going to be in Amarillo, we should see this. But really, somebody buried 10 old cars in the dirt at an angle and lets anyone who will pay $7.50 for a can of spray paint whatever they like on the cars. We didn’t paint any cars. There we cars parked all along the street leading up to the ranch so I am sure they get a lot of visitors. In the end, you would not have the urge to do this twice. We moved on.
After the Cadillac Ranch we head off to Roswell. As we stopped for gas along the way a young kid, maybe 16 drives up on a Kawasaki Ninja sport bike and walks over to the bikes, saying how much he likes them and can he take a Snap Chat video. The kid and the video below. Ha Ha. Nice kid.
The rest of the ride to Roswell divides into two parts; Amarillo to Clovis and Clovis to Roswell. The word “godforsaken” comes to mind to describe Amarillo to Clovis. Flat, very dusty with little vegetation and where there is something other than dirt and nothingness, small stores, large cattle processing concerns and railroad tracks. It is hard to imagine that people actually live and work in that environment. I don’t mean that in the way of criticism of the people that live there, just the awe of what living there must like.
Clovis to Roswell is even more devoid of people and buildings. However, there is a sort of scrubby vegetation that seems to save it from the nothingness of the first portion of the ride..
In both cases it is very windy with nothing to block it. It seems to be a constant fight to keep the bike in line.
We arrive in Roswell without incident, have a quick meal at an Appleby’s and rest up for tomorrow. We will hit the UFO museum in Roswell in the morning then it’s a short 192 mile ride to Santa Fe afterwards.
Adventures of an Old Man 