The Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo is a beacon to art and kitsch lovers everywhere. You can easily pass by it on I-40 if you're not paying attention, but if you're on the lookout, you can't miss it.
I've made a trip - or shall we say pilgrimmage - to the Cadillac Ranch before. When Greg and Mark and I went this summer it was HOT. Who would have guessed? Late July in Texas... hot... what a shock.
I must admit I do like Amarillo. It's a cool town.
When we went through, on the way to California, we added our own bits and piece to America's great collaborative art project.
When I came back through alone a couple of weeks later I had not planned to stop but the ladies at the MidPoint Cafe in Adrian (a must stop with cobbler made with fresh peaches) told me the Cadillac Ranch had been painted Pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness so I had to make another stop.
This young man was part of a family of dad, an older brother, and grandma and grandpa. Mother was ominously missing.
I left a message honoring another mother, who would have been about my age, who lost her fight with breast cancer more than a decade ago.
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