Heading home: Tucumcari, New Mexico

Wednesday April 2: we left Bluewater State Park at about 6:30 this morning and made record time to Tucumcari NM in 5.5 hours!  Eric is really anxious to get home. We only made a few pit stops, no sight seeing this trip..  The wind was not too bad when we left but picked up to about 30 mph by the time we set up camp at a KOA.  We did luck out as the wind was mostly at our back while driving, we got over 13mpg!   We have never stayed at a KOA before.  It seems to be OK.  right off of the freeway with clean restrooms.

Since we ran off quickly this morning and did not make any food stops we were pretty hungry so we headed to

it was a lot like a whopper.  not bad, not good but filling.

Since it was way to windy to walk or bird we drove around.  We found this Cheese Factory.  Being from Wisconsin we really like our cheese! 

we stopped in, well not quite, it was a factory without a retail store!  We just walked in, when Eric seen the hair nets and clean coats he knew something was wrong, I was just reading the sign to go 4 blocks to find the outlet store.  we did find where they sell their cheese locally but they were sold out of the cheese. this place also  boast that they serve a  good donut but were out of them too!  The owner said to come back after 3:00 to pick up some donuts!

she was still glazing them when Eric walked in…

we did find a local grocery store that had the cheese so of course we got a few chunks.

most of these towns rely on memories of Route 66 to keep them alive, they have wonderful murals, old cars etc..

dinner was good, not great but good

I did wake up with a bit of a sore throat this morning.  It is still there, hoping a good nights rest will cure it, if not maybe those donuts will do the trick in the morning.