Monday – April 24 – We did not get any rain or thunderstorms last night, so were lucky as from the sounds of the news it just missed us. Today was another sunny, hot day, in the mid 80’s so not as hot as yesterday.

We went to Palo Duro Canyon today and it was lovely. It is not as deep or as large as the Grand Canyon but is very nice with lots of interesting rock formations and colours. We were thinking of staying there but I couldn’t find too much on their campground on the internet so we decided to stay in Amarillo and just drive out to the canyon and that turned out to be a good thing. When we got there we saw a sign saying 10% grade for 2 miles and it was a very steep, windy road down to the bottom of the canyon where the campgrounds are. Also, the sights looked a little small for our trailer, so we were very glad we hadn’t decided to stay there. It is interesting driving out to the canyon as the area is very flat, you can see for miles, it reminded us of around Sarnia, then all of a sudden there is this large canyon. There were some very large looking cattle ranches with beautiful homes so I presume the cattle industry is a very prosperous industry.

After the canyon we came back and toured around Amarillo for a bit, it is a very large city and busy, there are lots of stores, restaurants, etc. here so no lack of shopping, eating or places to stay. We also saw a first in four months – a cemetery with grass!!

I can’t log onto the internet from the trailer so will have to pack up and go over to the office (or clubhouse) to use it. I will just download some of my pictures now so I can post a couple and not wait for John’s.