Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Check Another One Off The List

It's kinda funny on how you have a place pictured in your mind and a burning desire to do a particular thing, but once you see it and do it, it's very disappointing. Lets take for instance Mt. Rushmore. I have been told the pictures really do it justice and once you see it, it's like, "really, is that it?"
You have such high expectations for something, but it seems to fall short once you see it.

I have a Texas Bucket list as well as a regular Bucket list. The only difference between the two is the Texas one has to do only with Texas things and being a native Texan I would like to do as many of those as possible.
One item on the Texas Bucket List list is the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo. I have seen pictures of it and talked to folks that have visited. They all say it's a must do, but it's only ten cars buried in the dirt. So this last weekend I had the opportunity to go to Amarillo for the first time and participate in the Tri-State Chili Cook Off Championship, by the way I got third place and automatically qualified for the world championship. While there I made the trip North a couple of miles to mark another item off the list. We pulled over on the side of the road, looked across the field and all I could say is, really? They were right, it's only ten cars buried halfway in the dirt. How this made the list I will never know. I guess it's just one of those things kinda like looking at the world's largest ball of wire.

   

 We did take a can of paint because that's what you are suppose to do when you go and painted our names on the cars.
We travel and cook with our good friends and chili family K and D because going all over the place by yourselves is just boring. My dumb butt shaved my face and head only to be in one of the coldest places in Texas that weekend.
New Years weekend we traveled to San Antonio, cooked chili, did great and walked the river walk in the rain. We just can't catch a break on the weather while traveling and cooking chili.

I have every intention of staying home this weekend and just sending the wife to cook in Shreveport LA. I bought the stuff to paint the tiny house. Now they are calling for rain Saturday night and that just spoils my weekend plans. I still my stay home and do some more trim work on the porch if I cannot get it all done during the week. I am really tired of going, going, going at the moment.    

Other than that, not much is going on. It's too cold and nasty for anything else.

Jerry

6 comments:

  1. Congratulations on placing in the chili cook off! As much as I love the snow, I will be happy for spring, provided it isn't 100 degrees out.

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    1. Thanks J&M. It was a lot of fun. And yes, spring would be good but I wished it stayed like that year around.

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  2. I've been by those a number of times, sort of interesting to see. For the Texas Bucket list I favor the river walk in San Antonio, it is pretty cool to mess around there. At least it was 30 years ago.

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    1. The river walk still is BBC. We have been there a number of times and loved it. This time not so much because it was raining and it was a spare of the moment trip for a chili cookoff. We do plan to go back so I can get some dirt from the Alamo.
      Thanks for the comment.

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  3. Congratulations on the qualifying for the World Championship. I've also been to the Cadillac Ranch and like you wasn't much impressed and it's been close to 40 years since I did the river walk in San Antonio and that was a lot of fun back then.

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    1. Thanks Jim, I really didn't want to get qualified because I didn't want to do the the World Championship again this year. I have many more things I want to do with my vacation than stay in the desert.
      Amarillo is six hours from me and I can tell you this, the Cadillac Ranch is not worth the trip by it's self. Then again, there is not much out that way that is.
      Thanks for the comment.

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