On Saturday morning, we left Williams Arizona bright and early and headed for New Mexico. We intended to stay in Albuquerque, but the girls were all asleep when we drove through, so we kept on going. We ended up staying in a tiny town called Santa Rosa, at the Santa Rosa Campground. It was a lovely little place and we were glad to find it after driving over 470 miles from Arizona. While trekking through New Mexico, we learned that some things are different than home… for instance; one can buy guns, knives and fireworks at the Dairy Queen off I40 near Grants, NM. We also saw several billboards promoting abstinence, and several billboards advertising microsurgical vasectomy reversals.
On Sunday, we again started very early and headed for Texas. We stopped in Amarillo for Breakfast, and then headed southeast to Wichita Falls. We learned that in Texas, every small town has at least three steakhouses. We even saw “Mary’s Book Shop & Steakhouse.” So then we started a game in every little town: Dad would call out “Hedley Muffler” and the girls would chorus “and Steakhouse.” “Childress First Baptist Church… and Steakhouse,” “Rolling Prairie Taxidermy… and Steakhouse.”
We arrived in Wichita Falls mid afternoon, and the campground host told us about a nearby park next to the Wichita River, with a short walk to see “Wichita Falls.” The “Falls” turned out to be a man-made cascade of water falling into the Wichita River, but it was lovely. Apparently the actual “Wichita Falls” was only about 5 feet and was washed away in a storm over 100 years ago. We stopped at the playground and flew our kite for a while until dinner time. Also on the campground host’s recommendation, we had dinner at Don Jose’s, a tex-mex place. Everyone there knew each other, and while everyone was friendly, we had a hard time understanding their Texas Drawls and we had to keep asking them to repeat themselves.
Tomorrow we head for Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas!
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