The Wong Winding Woad-Adventures of The Chinese Cowboy

  I slept in until about 8 and got some gas at a local place right next to where Frontier was on Route 66. This cool Indian lady stopped and pumped gas and we chatted about the truck and Albuquerque I didn’t realize it was a “big city” but it does have a university. After I got done filling up the truck started right up with no hiccups I thought great. First stop was to see the petroglyphs at Boca Nega Canyon. It seemed weird that it was so close to town and it didn’t dawn on me how close it was. There was literally tracks of homes across the street of where the canyon was!!!!! No ranger but I did my diligence and donated my 1 dollar to go in and climbed the rocks. It was cool to see but Im not sure I would drive all the way to NM just to go see it. It is very small and you could see it all in about an hr. But the fact that I went to go see it. Dad said it wasn’t much and he was right. Right after that it was off to Santa Fe. There is suppose to be some cool museums to go see and I f

  I finally got up around 5:30 since sunrise was about 5:45 and walked to the point. It was beautiful and I am so glad I did it!!! After the sun was up I walked back to the truck and started breakfast which was hot chocolate because I couldn’t find a Starbucks last night and no truck stop sells just grinds only cups of coffee. O well. Hot chocolate a waffle and a Nutrigrain bar and I was good to go. Met a guy name Jason who was from Oregon, it was his birthday and he was telling me how he bought a caddy took it to Nashville and sold it to a guy he met at a bar, but this year he wanted to tour the grand canyon with his girlfriend. Super cool dude. Talked about cars for a bit while he was drinking his morning birthday beer and then he was off to go explore and I wanted to go to Mather point to take more pictures and spread some of Moms Ashes. Spent about 45 min there waiting for the gift shop to open at 9 which was fine by me as I got to explore the point more.  Cell phone coverage was p

Route 66 Trip So it all started in 78 before I was born when my Mom bought my Dad a 49 Chevy pick up for his wedding present.   In 2019 I bought a TCI frame and a 98 LS1 Camaro and trans which is in it a story of its own. Last year we finally got the truck up and running after having a shop do the finishing work on the engine trans. Last month Uncle Bill helped me do the stereo as it does get boring after awhile listening to the drone of the engine. A week or 2 before this trip I put some insulation and carpet down which helped a lot. I was ready for a fun trip. Mom always wanted to see route 66 and travel the country but she died before she could do it all. So I thought driving the truck would be an awesome way to do this with dad. But dad said no he would not do this since. It would be too long and uncomfortable and he would rather not do it. He said I should take my X5… but what fun would it be to take a new car on an old road. He said I should wait to do it after the truck was al