Palo Duro Canyon

Our latest vacation was a camping trip to Estes Park, Colorado. I am going to break the trip into 3 parts since we camped at 3 different locations and I have many pictures from each leg of the trip. We began our trip on July 20th(6am) heading to Amarillo(which is approx. half way between Houston & Denver). The drive was very boring with very little to see for miles and miles and miles. As we arrived near Amarillo(and miles of nothing) we came up to Palo Duro Canyon seemingly out of nowhere. We setup our camp at the base of the canyon and decided to do a little hiking(with Molly). After hiking, it was time for dinner so we headed into town to the Big Texan restaurant. While it was very touristy with lots of photo ops, it had one of the best steaks we have ever tasted. We headed back to camp around 11pm and realized we must have missed something big in the canyon as there  were miles of cars coming out of the canyon at this time. We found out later that there was a musical put on by college students at the base of the canyon which depicted the settlers coming into Texas and their life in the area. We were told there were around 2600 in attendance, Jill was pretty bummed we missed it. By the time we arrived back at camp it was time for some sleep to get ready for another long day of travel to Colorado.