Driving Route 66 through Texas

Almost everywhere I go, there are windmills. The one below was at an I-40 rest stop in east Texas. I didn't realize it at the time, but in addition to following Route 66, I was also traveling part of the American Wind Power Trail (archive 2004).

Windmill at East Texas I-40 Welcome Center

Article at IREC (archive 2005).

OpenStreetMap of approximate location, between Alanreed and Jericho (near bottom). According to an old map, from 1975, at that time there were dozens of windmills in the area.

Featured in this blog as " Holy Lone Star Sepulchre of the Windmill" (scroll down, archive 2006).

This may be a description of the same windmill site (archive 2004).

OpenStreetMap of nearby Alanreed, TX

Nearby, I tried to follow the "Jericho Gap" dirt road. Soon, I found myself neither here nor there, and decided to turn around and go back before I got stuck or lost. Following the original dirt track suddenly seemed less important than it did a few minutes earlier.

This wind power plant was at White Deer, Texas, which is away from Route 66 by a few miles:

Wind Turbine Windmills, Wind Power Plant, White Deer, Texas

To the west of Amarillo, we visited the Cadillac Ranch:

Thanks to MJP for the above 2 photos.

As tradition encourages, we left our marks, in a few colors:

Go Boiler Makers!

A college spirit competition ensued:
Go Boiler Makers! Go Vols!

Go Boiler Makers! Go Vols!
Thanks to MJP for the 2 photos used in the above animated image, which was made using Imagemagick convert and ppmfade.

Go to Oklahoma

Quote of the moment

On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children’s children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.

~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, March 4, 1910. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 294, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930).

Butt was citing Taft’s reply to James C. Hemphill, Democrat, longtime editor of the Charleston News and Courier, upon being asked if he liked being President. ~

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