Our first stop of the day was the world-famous Cadillac Ranch which – if you don’t already know – is a patch of a field with a load of buried Cadillacs with their rear ends sticking out of the ground!
Visitors come along and are allowed to add graffiti to the cars; every so often the owner has them repainted to provide a blank canvas. Impressive as I thought it would be.
Then we stopped at the Midpoint Café in Adrian, Texas: halfway along Route 66. An impromptu performance by a group of musicians saw us on our way towards New Mexico, with the Blue Swallow Motel and then onto Santa Fe where we had stopped before a thunderstorm and torrential rain found us sheltering in (expensive) shops and a Starbucks.
![Cadillac Ranch](http://www.bluesbigtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Route66-RHM-2351-150x150.jpg)
![Let Us Spray](http://www.bluesbigtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Route66-RHM-2358-150x150.jpg)
![Halfway There](http://www.bluesbigtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Route66-RHM-2363-150x150.jpg)
![Closed](http://www.bluesbigtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Route66-RHM-2382-150x150.jpg)
![End of the Road](http://www.bluesbigtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Route66-RHM-2384-150x150.jpg)
![Objects...](http://www.bluesbigtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Route66-RHM-2390-150x150.jpg)
![Blue Swallow Motel, Tucumcari, New Mexico](http://www.bluesbigtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Route66-RHM-2396-150x150.jpg)
![Trucked](http://www.bluesbigtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Route66-RHM-2399-150x150.jpg)
![Cadillac Ranch](http://www.bluesbigtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2012-08-03-08.44.47-150x150.jpg)