Is this the way???

Today sees us on the "...way to Amarillo" which is mostly on the I-40 again, but somehow this 300 miles stretch is set to take us a good 5 hours? :S add to that the fact that we will stop places, (I'm eying up the Route 66 Auto Museum, just outside Santa Rosa, Adrian - the (contested) mid point of of Route 66, and the Cadillac Ranch just outside (Sha-la-la, la-la, la-la-la,) Amarillo. Which is a row of Caddies buried nose first in the ground as a tribute to Route 66. Can't wait!...The museum was awesome! about 30 or so old cars, in great condition, I ended up taking well over 120 photos, there were 5 mustangs, and I love mustangs. (Ok, so one was a gay 80's mach 1) 2 Sting-Rays (one early one later) a GTO, a Plymouth Roadrunner, and old school Ford Falcon Convertible, and some really old and crazy stuff, also, rather suprisingly, a 280z...in a horrible shade of umm, brownygold? we spent a long time in there, longer because my camera is still playing up, everyso often the screen goes white and to make it work involves some random mixture of pressing the side of the casing in, blowing through the back of the screen and shaking it about, so that'll be going back to the vendor when I get back. The museum also had a few engines on stands at the front which were pretty cool. Next stop was the midpoint of Route 66 in Adrian. THe owner of the Midpoint Cafe came out and took a picture for us, which was very nice of him, we still didn't buy anything from his cafe or shop though. (The whole road is littered with these kitsch souvenir shops.) then we headed to Amarillo, stopping just outside to visit the Cadillac ranch, which has been moved from it's oringinal site, due to Amarillo getting bigger! (development creep) The reason it's been moved is well, a load of cadillacs buried in the ground getting continuously graffiti'd isn't going to help property prices, AND, the guy that did it, did so as an homage to the route, and wanted to keep the background to it bleak to add to it's presence. It definately worked, considering it was just a few cars stuck in the ground, incidentally at the same angle as the choebs?? pyramids in Egypt. We got some awesome photos, I climbed up into one, and have left my marks with some blue spray paint I found lying around. (there will be pictures on facebook once I get hold of the ones Alana took too.) Eventually we made it to Amarillo, after what was essentially a very car centred day, had some food and drove round the town a bit.