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Cowboy shoulders, jeans wrapped around round and firm buttocks, and a pair of cowboy boots, a scarf around the neck, a stubborn and confident smile at the corner of the mouth, feeling amazing, this steak shop is Amarillo's most famous Texas farm steak shop, who only needs to eat 72 ounces (about two kilograms) of steak within the specified time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

You can get free of charge, Yunluo is not interested in steak, and the two partners didn't think of challenging it, but they just ordered a 24-ounce symbolic taste, and there was a young man next to Yunluo and Yan Shenyu who completed the challenge, and he stood up to accept the salute of the audience!

Amarillo's most iconic attraction is the Cadillac Farm, or Cadillac Cemetery! Google Maps can actually see this row of scrapped Cadillac cars stuck upside down in the dirt, and despite the cloudy day, you can still see that the paint graffiti on the surface of the body is extremely bright, and even the weeds on the ground are not spared.

It has also become a pilgrimage site for road runners and a must-see landmark for everyone who walks Route 66. Many passing cars are parked on the side of the road, the weather is cold, windy and rainy, but there are still tourists with paint sprays to improvise, about the origin of this row of cars you can refer to the poor travel tips, Yunluo can only say, rich is capricious!

In addition to Amarillo, there is also a landmark in Texas is Adrian, which is just at the midpoint of Route 66, 1139miles from Los Angeles and 1139miles from Chicago, which means that Yunluo and Yan Shenyu have already driven half of the afternoon on the fourth day, and the remaining 8 days are because they are to the west of Route 66.

Many times they will leave Route 66 and go to some nearby scenic spots such as the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Monument Valley, and many more.

Saying goodbye to Adrian, everyone also breathed a sigh of relief. Because Texas does not recognize Chinese driver's licenses, in fact, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu have always been "driving illegally", so they are very cautious when driving, for fear of speeding or something being stopped by a police car, it will be a tragedy, the reason why they know the law is broken. In fact, I still think that Cadillac Farm is a must-see.

When I arrived in New Mexico, it seemed to be an extra hour for mountain time, the first stop was Tukom Cari, very dilapidated, blueswallowmotel is a famous motel, some of the wall paintings in the parking garage in the hotel are very bright and beautiful, there is a big supermarket nearby, and there is a large wall painting on the side of the supermarket.

When you get to New Mexico City, you really feel like these towns are not small. But the population is small, many dilapidated houses, the streets are less trafficked and people are pitiful, it seems to be gradually declining, Santa Rosa is also, a small city in the desert area, more famous is a natural spring in the city, bluehole!

I heard that it is suitable for diving. But now the temperature is on the low side, and it is cloudy again. So Yunluo and Yan Shenyu didn't see anyone going down to dive, the spring water surface is not big, the bottom seems to be very deep, people with claustrophobia or abyssal phobia will be a little cautious and panicked, such as Yunluo == but dived in another bluehole.

Located in Dahab, Egypt, the water quality of the Red Sea is simply outrageously clear!

The next step south is the alien town of Roseville. However, the round-trip of more than 570 kilometers was delayed, and Yunluo and Yan Shenyu chose to give up, and did not continue to walk along Route 66, but went north to Santa Fe first, with the aim of going to Taos Town the next day. Then go to Albuquerque.

Return to Route 66. All the way to Santa Fe is also a mountainous desert scenery, majestic, as the altitude rises, you can see the Santa Fe mountain city shrouded in fog from afar, like a fairyland, on Friday night, the accommodation here is almost full, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu deviated from the search for a long time to find a motel.

At night, I still eat the instant rice bought by Walmart, which is delicious and affordable. In fact, the next day, I found out that Santa Fe is really beautiful, no wonder many people travel here on weekends, and another reason is to catch the hot air balloon festival in Albuquerque.

After waking up, I took a walk around the Santa Fe downtown, there are two churches and a city square that is worth seeing, mixed Indian and Spanish style buildings, traditional adobe houses, rounded corners instead of edges, quite fairytale, the palace of thegovernors here is the oldest public building in the United States.

The wet grass in the downtown garden is full of fallen leaves, the pigeons walk carelessly, and the idle tourists sit on the side of the street drinking coffee, and Yunluo feels that the pressure to feed the pigeons here is quite high.

To quote an online description: "Santafe was the original administrative capital of the United States, a center of trade and religion, and a destination for music, architecture, fine arts, and leisure." Santafe's winding paths, gardens with local flowers and surrounding mountains are all a delight.

There is no other city in the United States that preserves and is proud of its culture like Santafe. Her natural beauty and humanistic heritage have earned her divine acclaim. Nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Santafe is known as the 'Blood of Christ' at sunset, and is the world's third-largest collection of fine arts.

Later, I met a girl living in Chicago, USA, in Istanbul, and also mentioned her obsession and love for the small town of Santafe. The road to Taos begins to rise, along with canyon terrain, and the Indian village of Taos is $16 for admission.

It's a bit disappointing, it feels like it's set up for tourists to visit, and it's no longer a village with real-life significance, but the surrounding mountainous scenery is beautiful, with golden deciduous forests all the way, and I also found a Chinese restaurant here to eat fried rice, which is particularly generous. The waiter boy is going to school nearby.

Then come to visit and work during the holidays, and it is not easy to meet Chinese companions in such a remote mountain town.

After leaving the town of Taos, go straight to Albuquerque, passing by Santafe did not stop, tomorrow is the last day of Albuquerque's annual hot air balloon festival, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu's luck is fantastic (the next day I know what is called hope and disappointment), but the problem is that the accommodation is also very tight, and it is not easy to find a room in Motel6.

I inquired about the information about the arrangement of tomorrow's hot air balloon festival, and then went out for a walk, the hot air balloon festival is released in the morning, and there is basically nothing in the afternoon, so Yunluo and Yan Shenyu went to Albuquerque in the afternoon first, and did not see a lot of grotesque Mexican symbols (on the last day in San Diego, I met a lot of skeleton beauties).

However, the colorful houses here are eye-catching, and there are no pedestrians on the road.

In the evening, I arrived at Sandiapeak Mountain to know that tourists have come here, and it is the first time in the United States to see such a vast procession in these days, the peaks here rise from the ground, desolate but majestic, with a vertical height of 1,100 meters, it is said that Mexico can be seen from the top of the mountain, and there is also the longest cable car in the world.

The cable car ticket is 20 dollars, and the queue is nearly two hours, Yunluo did not take the cable car, but waited at the beginning of the cable car to watch the sunset, in fact, it is already a condescending situation, it is very suitable to watch the sunset, and today's sunset is quite special, on one side is the sunset afterglow is golden, and on the other side is the tornado lightning and thunder.

In order to photograph the lightning on the shore of the sunset, Yunluo kept pressing the shutter with his camera, and took more than 100 shots before he caught a few lightning bolts, which were not too obvious.

The frequency of lightning is not high, so it can only be the eyes that see the lightning and then press the shutter, and pray that the lightning lasts longer than your reaction time ==, it is difficult because it is not night and there is no gray filter, so the method of long exposure is not feasible, and wait until an hour after dark, and the companion finally comes down from the ropeway.

Their unanimous feeling was that it was so cold on the top of the mountain! Frozen to death! There was a bit of a traffic jam on the way back, and when I was stuck in traffic, I saw a giant fireworks over the city center, and the fireworks were also one of the repertoire of the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Festival every night, and I had to go to bed early at night, because I had to get up at 5 o'clock the next day.

The hot air balloon release site is not far from the hotel, and it takes about half an hour to walk, and you can only choose to walk, because you may encounter traffic jams and slower driving past, and it is difficult to find a parking space.

Get up at 5 o'clock, eat a little bread to cushion your stomach, pick up the camera and run to the hot air balloon release site nearly 3 kilometers away, the ticket seems to be 10 US dollars, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu are already early, but when they arrive at the big square of the hot air balloon festival venue, it is still a lively crowd, and the eastern sky has gradually cooled down at this time.

Many people came out of the tent and began to spread breakfast, the venue was very large, Yunluo and his friends made an appointment to return at half past eight, and then went their own way. Some pickup trucks began to pull trailers into their places, and everywhere there was the sound of hot air balloon engine nozzles, flames heating up the air, and many refractions as far as the eye could see.

Some hot air balloons also began to slowly bulge, from lying deflated to standing up full, there will be a lot of spectators cheering around, at most there are 8 or 9 hot air balloons standing up at the same time and jumping up, all kinds of shapes, little fat pig type Spider-Man, xx-eyed puppy. But. But.

In the end, there was no hot air balloon flying, the reason was that the weather was not suitable, the wind was too strong, the mood was rising with the puff of the hot air balloon, and then as they slowly deflated and low, I thought that I was lucky to catch the hot air balloon festival, but the sky was not beautiful.

This year's gapyear trip seems to be really out of touch with hot air ballooning, in Bagan, Myanmar was going to make a hot air balloon, and the sky-high price of $330 made people give up directly! Cappadocia, Turkey, is very beautiful after the snow, but in winter, because of the strong wind, I didn't have the opportunity to ride a hot air balloon for three days, and the trip always carries all kinds of regrets. (To be continued.) )

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