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Route 66 - Day 8
Packin' up at the Wigwam we thought we needed a good breakfast. We tooled down the road and there was Joe & Angie's. Mexican food? Not havinig got enough of that, we parked and went in. I got the breakfast burrito and Lovely Wife got the Ranchero Eggs. She had both red & green chili sauce and I had just the green. That breakfast held all the way to Tucumcari!
We once again picked up some missed parts of 66 and snapped a few photos that we had missed earlier on the way west. We drove through a lava field, saw another pueblo and an old auqaduct (Ralph & Lina thought it was some relation but we explained differently to them.)
On 66 we visited Montoya, nothing there but an old building with Cold Beer written on the side, but that was one of the first 66 ruins that we had encountered years ago. A couple of folks had stopped and were snapping photos. We then made our way through a VERY narrow tunnel and then to a dead end on 66. We backtracked to a Stuckey's and got back on the big slab.
Rolling in to Tucumcari we started playing the soundtrack to Cars and pulled int to the Blue Swallow. Bill showed us our room, I picked out a shirt to buy and then we headed out for dinner. Having had our fill of Mexican, we thought we would stop at Del's. However, we decided to wander around town (which didn't take long at all) and we ended up at La Cita (a Mexican place). The food was good but we had hit it between the dinner rush and whatever rush was going to be next. After dinner it was back to the room and some needed rest.
