April 8, 2017 - Amarillo, Texas
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| We pulled off I-40 in Amarillo to hit the Big Texan Steak Ranch for lunch. I've been here a couple of times and love it. |
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Don likes steak as much as I do.
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| Yes, this is the place where you can get a 72 oz steak for free. All you have to do is finish it. Along with the shrimp cocktail, salad, baked potato, and roll (butter optional), pictured at the corners. In one hour. |
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That's a lot of meat!
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| The main dining room. If you do decide to go for the challenge, you have to sit on the platform, in the background just right of center, so that everyone in the main dining room can watch you. Notice the bright LED clocks above the platform that count down from 60 minutes. |
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| Don seriously considered it but in the end we both got the 24-ounce ribeye steaks for lunch. They were excellent. |
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After lunch at the Big Texan we headed just west of town to Amarillo's other big attraction: Cadillac Ranch.
The public art installation and sculpture consists of 10 Cadillacs buried nose-first in the ground. The cars are inclined at the same angle as the pyramids of Giza.
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The cars are periodically repainted various colors (once white for the filming of a television commercial, another time pink in honor of Stanley's wife Wendy's birthday, and again all 10 cars were painted flat black to mark the passing of Ant Farm artist Doug Michels, or simply to provide a fresh canvas for future visitors).
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