Palo Dura Canyon State Park, Texas

We travel 30 miles south of Amarillo, Texas to Palo Dura Canyon State Park, the "Grand Canyon of Texas". We had planned to camp here last night, but the campground was full. The park attendant said there would be lots of spaces available today.

On the way to the park we pass another Texas roadside "attraction", Combine City. It's a take-off of the Cadillac Ranch artwork, but using farm combines. Not sure if there is a message with these half-buried combines or not.

We reach the park, are assigned a nice campsite, set up, and have lunch.

There are several birds around our campsite, including a wild turkey.

We drive around the park and end up at the visitor center. The visitor center area has a great view of the canyon and Joe ask to have his picture taken (he's in no danger of falling into the canyon, so please don't report us for child endangerment).

We stop at the 5ver for a snack and more water, and then start our 7 mile hike (roundtrip) to Light House Rock. Great day for a hike, sunny, breezy, high of 66 degrees. Enjoyable hike with wonderful western scenery.

After hiking several hoursg we head back for dinner. While we're eating dinner, two wild turkeys come over to the side of our RV.

I take a nice long shower, watch Desperate Housewives (I can't believe we get TV reception down here in the canyon) and call it a day.