The Cadillac Ranch on Route 66

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These photographs are my own photographic impressions of the Cadillac Ranch, one mile away from our "Oasis RV Park" where we are located since two days. Probably we will stay here one day more because of the recent rainy and bitter cold windy weather conditions and the Tornado threats to the East in Oklahoma.

The Cadillac Ranch,
located along the tatters of historic Route 66, was built in 1974, brainchild of Stanley Marsh 3, the helium millionaire who owns the dusty wheat field where it stands. Marsh and The Ant Farm, a San Francisco art collective, assembled used Cadillacs representing the "Golden Age" of American Automobiles (1949 through 1963). The ten graffiti-covered cars are half-buried, nose-down, facing west "at the same angle as the Cheops' pyramids."

Hi my friends,

We are "stocked" just now here on this wonderful Campground "Oasis RV Resort" in Amarillo Texas. No, no...it's not a bad thing to get stocked here, the place is very nice, the laundry is FREE, the parking spaces are all paved and there is also a big pool in the back, if... yes IF it wouldn't be so damn cold!!! We are freezing and have the heat on day and night inside our RV... :))

And we have also exceptional bad weather predictions, also for tomorrow, with even Tornado warnings - special for the East towards Oklahoma, where we have to go! Well, we will see...maybe we will make also a 180 degrees turn and heading back to the West again...LOL... We are free and can do whatever we want, right?.... :))

Stay tuned and have fun looking to my photos - thanks for all the nice comments!
Love you all!

Susanne

Is this the way to Amarillo?

This is how it was looking the next morning in Albuquerque: SNOW!

On the road again to Texas and in between was Tucumcari...

...and also a ghost town...

If you know where Tucumcari is, you will know too that we were on the legendary "Historical Route 66" again - as you can see in this picture

...or this one: a Mexican Restaurant...

.... or this pretty "Blue Swallow Motel"...

But I think this business is "out of order" since long time already

Tucumcari is known for all the beautiful painted murals from the high time of Route 66

Riding cowboy mural on Route 66

I like this one very much!

Front and site walls of this Motel are murals

Back in Texas again!

And the landscape went FLAT - flat as flat can be...

but, with beautiful warm colors

and pretty clouds at the Bridwell West Ranch

Texas cows

The only way to the horizon

....if eaten in one hour!!!... can you do that...? :))

The Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo. Tomorrow I'll show you more photos from this funky place

Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U.S. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm, and it consists of what were (when originally installed during 1974) either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a number of evolutions of the car line (most notably the birth and death of the defining feature of early Cadillacs; the tail fin) from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. The piece is a statement about the paradoxical simultaneous American fascinations with both a "sense of place" — and roadside attractions, such as The Ranch itself — and the mobility and freedom of the automobile.

Hi my friends,

I hope you've enjoyed my photos from our trip to Amarillo and we are still sitting here.
I have photographed today also a wonderful sunset on the prairie - that will be online also tomorrow.

Thanks for the comments!!
Susanne