We left
Pueblo around 0900 and headed East on Route 50 with the knowledge that we have
280 miles or so to travel today which is actually not too bad on these roads. I
may have mentioned on previous Blogs that the roads in the US are very well
built and visit some of the most interesting places in this country and the
complete US road structure is excellent.
It is
mostly flat with the odd hill and we passed through a number of small towns
with names like Rocky Ford, La Junta, Las Animas, Hasty and Lamar.
We
stopped in Lamar for a Subway sandwich and then continued East and you could
see hundreds of cattle in pens, actually probably thousands really and also
many hundreds of sheep were also being penned perhaps getting ready for market?
We also
passed through a town called Garden City, which actually sounds quite nice but actually
it’s a pretty horrible place and I cannot find anything at all to recommend it
except there is route 50 to get you out.
We are
staying on the Hampton Inn in Dodge City which is a fairly newish Hotel and decorated
in the cowboy style and it is on the outside of town right next to a
convention/sport arena and also a state run Casino. We checked in and then had
at look at the Casino Restaurant and from there went looking for a decent
supermarket and Dillons was thought to be the best and we hoped we could get
some decent fish to do in the room microwave but the quality looked terrible
and even the Deli takeaway food did not look great and so we decided to head
down town to see what restaurants we could find. There were plenty of fast food
places but few restaurants and although we checked out an Italian place and
then a cheapish steakhouse none of it looked good and so after quick drive down
the main road decided to go back to the Casino as the food in these places is
generally reasonably priced and of good quality and we were not disappointed.
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| Garden City down town |
We both
chose the pork ribs and they were really very good and the price for a couple
of glasses of wine, help yourself to soup and salad, and two huge plates of
ribs the total was about £ 30 which we thought was excellent value.
Then
back to the Hotel for some email and TV watching.
