We left Del Rio on Sunday heading north toward San Angelo and then spending the night in Big Spring. The drive up to San Angelo was beautiful. All kinds of wildflowers were blooming including Texas Bluebonnets. The blue flowers in the picture are bluebonnets. The prickly pear cactus were also starting to bloom everywhere. They have yellow flowers but some can be a little pink. We were on the west edge of the Texas "Hill Country" and the hill country is known for the spring wildflower bloom. We only got a little taste of it so I can't imagine hillsides covered in blooms.
We are in Amarillo for a few days and of course had to eat at the Big Texan home of the 72oz steak -- if you can eat it all in an hour its free-- no thanks. Jim had a fabulous steak and I tried the chicken fried steak with fried okra. Good but too much fried food in one meal. So far its just trying to rain a little but its windy. We are in the panhandle of Texas and besides oil wells and cattle they plant a lot of cotton -- that was a surprise.
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