March 18-19, 2021
Let me get this out of the way. When Bob first brought up this trip, I was not excited. I mean, how much do you want to visited the Texas Panhandle? He had to dangle the promise of at least one art museum in front of me and a few quirky destinations (two of which are covered in this post). He also promised we would spend some time in Central Texas and end the trip in Austin. It helped that I was desperate to leave home. We were supposed to be traveling to the Galapagos Islands during my March 2021 Spring Break, and even Texas sounded better than staying home and moping.
We flew out of Ontario, had an hour-long layover in Dallas, and then had a short flight to Amarillo. On our arrival, Bob started singing the 1973 song "Amarillo by Morning" and unfortunately didn't stop singing it for several days.
We were welcomed to the small Amarillo Airport by this statue of Rick Husband, an Amarillo native who was killed aboard the space shuttle Columbia when it disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere in 2003.
