Amarillo - Old School

This is a replica of a typical dugout which would have been used by early European settlers to the region. The canyon had been inhabited by its native peoples for 12,000 before many of their tribes were decimated or sent to reservations in Oklahoma.

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Here's a view fromthe ridge...

Amarillo! I've been everywhere, man...

Who would've thought that Amarillo,TX could be even mildly entertaining?I surely didn't... until we got there and actually found stuff to do there. For instance, the nearby Palo Duro Canyon is just about 20 minutes outside of town. You could easily spend a a few days just hiking the trails through the 2nd largest canyon in the US. My travel companions and I rented an SUV to navigate the state park portion of the canyon, making stops wherever and whenever some scene just begged to be explored. As it turns out, this was ideal for us -- we were able to check out many interesting sites that are just off the "beaten path."