Friday, September 4,

We ate breakfast at Wellington, Texas on Highway 83, typical small town to say. Turn left on highway 256 and Drove through the Badlands of Palo Duro Canyon up the Caprock to Tulia. From there we went north to Palo Duro Canyon State Park. Before we got to the Canyon we saw a herd of wild buffalo, no wait a minute, there was a fence around them. We drove down into the canyon and it was beautiful, kind of like a miniature Grand Canyon.  We saw the area that the Comanches, Kiowas, and Cheyenne Indians winter camped and where the army defeated them and killed over 1000 of their horses and destroyed their Villages forcing them to surrender and go to the reservation. When we left Shamrock going south we saw large cotton fields, in the breaks & badlands of the canyon were ranches. When we came out on top we were on the Llano Estacado (Stake Plains) 150 miles wide & 250 miles long or 37,

500 sq. miles, the flattest area in the USA. You can google it. It is now farmland with mile after mile of cotton, Milo, wheat and corn. We saw SO many abandoned  homes, some nice brick homes, it was sad. A pic of very big nice home, I guess that is how you do it in Texas. 😉