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The old folks decided to take a trip to West Texas, so us guys decided to go along, cuz that's what we always do anyhow.  We drove out in a little snow storm, but we din't get stuck or nothing, so we finally got to Amarillo, Texas about a little late for our regular dinner time, which is about 5:00.

We noticed by the road signs that this must be called "The Christmas State," cuz every other town was named "Santa This," or "Santa That."

The next morning we got up and went to see a history museum, in Windmill that makes the wind blow in TexasCanyon, Texas, which is about 15 miles south of Amarillo.  That museum had a lot of oil well stuff and windmill fans that they use to make wind around there.  We seen that the water squirts out of the ground through a pipe and pushes a long stick up and down, and that stick makes some gears and things turn the fan so the wind will blow.  (In Colorado the trees wiggle their leaves, and thDangerous looking oil rig in the museumat makes the wind blow, but in Texas they don't have very many trees like that so they need these windmills to manufacture some wind).Heart-Pounding Rating 10+

A lot of the cool things looked pretty dangerous, so none of us guys messed with anything there.  There was an awful lot of cool things in that museum, and I can't put in about a hunnert pitchers, so you ken jest click your mouse thingy below to get to their website.  Don't forget to click on the pitcher to make it reel big if you want to.

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

After that museum we went back to Amarillo and checked out the HeliumAmarillo Helium monument that we checked out Monument, which is a famous thing around there.  It looked reel cool so me and Sniffy got out and checked it out reel close.  Near the back theHeart_Pounding Rating 1re was this little faucet that stuck out of one of the legs, so since we was both thirsty, I turned it on a little tiny bit, and got a mouth full of smoke that came out and blew all over both of us.  Then when I decided to talk, I sounded like one of those talking birds, and so did Sniffy, so we went back into the van and had some fun talking to the other guys and making funny sounds that we couldn't usually do.  That magic gas wore off after about an hour and we both talked normal again.  That sure was fun!

Then we went and found an old train locomotive, and it also looked pretty dangerous, so we stayed in the van.  Anyhow, the locomotive was beOld Steam Locomotive in Amarillohind a couple of big fences, so they must have had some trubble with people messing with it before.

I used to have a website link here, but then it started taking you to a medicine store or something like that, so if you want any more information about this locomotive, you ken jest search for "Amarillo Steam Locomotive 5000" and see what you ken find. 

Also in the area is Cadillac Ranch, which is where some feller got tired of hisCadillac Ranch, where the Cadillacs came back out of the ground CadHeart-pounding rating 0illacs giving him some trubble, so he buried them in the ground, then the wind blew so hard that they popped their rear ends back up in the air.  Us guys jest stayed in the van cuz the wind was reely blowing hard, and any of us would have got blown away.  You ken check it out at this web site:

Cadillac Ranch Website

On the way away from Amarillo we stopped at a restaurant fer lunch. I can't tell you the reel name of the place cuz the owner might get mad at mRestaurant like the one where we ate lunche, so I'll jest call it the "Road Kill Grill," and tell you what happened instead.

The old folks went in to eat, and me and Leroy went in to see if we could find anything for us.  We found some munchies under the table and were eating when we overheard the waitress waiting on the guy at the next table.  The feller was trying to order lunch and he asked for a hamburger without no onions.  The waitress said, "We're out of onions, could he take it without no tomaters instead?"

The guy looked kind of funny, and he talked like he was from New York, and those people don't have much patience with people who say something that sounds stupid, so he told her, "No, I don't like tomaters, so just forget it, I'll go somewhere else to eat!"  Then he got up and walked out and drove his big fancy car away.

As he was leaving, the waitress said, "We could make it without lettuce instead, if you would prefer."

I hope he din't starve, cuz that was the only place to get something to eat fer quite a few miles.

Lubbock, TexasSparky's Heart-Pounding Rating 3

We got to Lubbock and got a motel room next to the Buddy Holly Museum, but we didn't have no time to go and see his statue cuz we blasted off to head for Austin. You ken click below fer more information on that subject:

Buddy Holly Museum

Abilene, Texas

We got to Abilene later that day, and got to our motel after lunch.  The next day we met up with Gloria's niece, Janet, and her husband, Mark, and their 2 kids named Jonathan, 4, and Allison, 6, and they took the old folks on a tour of the airplanes on Dyess Air Force Base.  Mark told the old folks all about thLittle picture of big airplane that Sparky didn't get a chance to check outose old airplanes, but they didn't get to start up the engines and fly them around or nothing.  I didn't get to go cuz there was a guard at the gate to the base, and he had a big gun and he wouldn't have let me take my gun with me, and I always feel naked without it, so me and the other guys jest stayed at the motel.  And also us guys don't get too close to kids that age in case they have sticky hands and they might get us yukky.Sparky standing, with his gun on his hip

And anyway, in case something went wrong with one of those old airplanes, I din't want to get blamed, so that was jest another reason why all of us stayed home.  That's me in the pitcher, and you ken jest see my pistol gun on my hip by my paw that's ready fer action.  I can't give those airplanes no "Heart-Pounding" Rating cuz I din't get to see none of them, but they were probably pretty cool.

After the airplane tour everybuddy went to dinner, and us guys also missed that, too, and we had to jest sneak out of the motel room and find a couple of dried out muffins on the floor in the free breakfast room that the motel has.  I also found a reel crunchy chocolate donut behind one of the tables, and it was reel good after I knocked off all the dust bunnies.  We took everything back to the room where there was some leftover coffee, and we had a mini picnic and cleaned everything up before the old folks got back.

Austin, Texas

The next day we took off for Austin, and the old folks went for a short bike rideBike trail in Austin along the Colorado River, but it was mid afternoon, and about a million other people also had the same idea, so they gave up due to all the traffic on the trail and we went and found our motel.

The next morning the old folks went back again, but it was Sunday, and all the early birds were out running, and biking, and walking their dogs, and standing in the middle of the trail talking, and stuff like that, so it wasn't a very good bike rideGreat big satellite dish that didn't get very many channels for them, but at least it got them out of the motel for a while so us guys could check things out again.  We didn't break the big satellite dish outside of the motel.  It fell over all by itself right after we got back into the room after adjusting it with the screw handle on the back of it.

Our dish at home is tiny and it gets about a million channels, but this one, even though it was reel big, it only got about 7 channels of news, 5 channels of sports, and one channel with something else, so that's why we was trying to fix it.  Sniffy said the pitcher looked a lot better after I was done working on it, and it was great, right up until it fell over like it did.  That's when I stuck a clothes hanger in a hole in the back of the TV and we immediately got 18 good channels that the hanger sucked out of the air!

San Marcos, Texas

We got to San Marcos the next day after getting lost and driving along some river road where a flood reely messed things up, and they were rebuilding a lot of stuff, then we got to a place called, "Aquarena," and there was a lot of weird fish swimming in the water there.  It was kinda cold and we din't stay very long, so you ken check out their website by clicking below:

Aquarena Website

San Antonio, Texas

We got to San Antonio later that day and checked into our motel, the La Piņata Motel, I think.  The next day the old folks went downtown to check out the world famous River Walk and also the Alamo.

San Antonio River Walk      The Alamo

They walked around a little and tried to get in to see the Alamo, but there was some shindig going on in there and it was closed fer a while.  That was reel cool...the main thing to see there and it was closed fer a couple of morDrawing of an armadillo that looks a little like Antonioe hours, so they jest went and checked out some other things and took a tourist bus ride that takes you all around the place.  They got off the bus at the old City Market and went inside and bought our new brother, "Antonio," who is a little Armadillo, and I forgot to take a pitcher of him, so I'll put in a drawing until I get a reel pitcher.  Then they caught the bus back to the Alamo area and jumped into the van and got out of downtown before the rush hour started.

The next day they went back to downtown and me and Sniffy got to go along.  We cSparky's Heart-pounding rating 6hecked out the Alamo again, and it turned out to jest be an old, dark churchlike building that was crowded with tourists, so we didn't do nothing there.  Instead, the old folks cruised around and checked out some stores and stuff, then we ate lunch at a weird place called "Dick's Last Resort," and we had a reel good lunch of hamburgers and fries and iced tea.San Antonio River where we walked and took a boat ride

After lunch we went on a boat ride down the river, then up the river, then across the other way in the river, then back to the starting place again, and me and Sniffy almost got seasick, but them fries kept us in good health through all of that.

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