It's not everyday that one comes across art in the flatlands of the Texas panhandle.
Luckily plenty abounds near the town of Canyon.
We got the Palo Duro canyon state park, I'd have pics but there were toooo many cops and they wanted me to pay to get in.
I was just site seeing, and wasn't interested in talking to cops, nor paying to drive around the loop.
So, I went to this landmark, instead.
The plaque says something about Percy Shelley and his wife finding this broken statue in 1819.
It includes a few lines that he wrote.
Maybe you can read them,
The small print is an affirmation of the truth of the assertion that these are indeed what Shelley found.
I'm not sure that what it says is true, there was an eccentric oil millionaire that went around town setting up what would have been traffic signs in folks' yards if they didn't have varying inscriptions, like, 'Grab Loot!', 'That girl has been on more laps than a napkin.', and something about hot apple pies being the greatest thing in the world, I would have gotten pics, but I was riding without insurance, and with an expired out of state license tag, and didn't want to dilly dally in town.
You will just have to go to Amarillo and see them for yourself.
You will want to hurry, that guy died a couple years ago, but not before the little boys told on him for paying them to come over and play pool in his game room.
Quite the character that will be sent down the memory hole now, I'm sure.
Have a perfectly peaceful day.
Keep working, stop paying. No war, but the class war!!
There's good people in Amarillo. I was fleeing TX in a '76 Nova I bought for $200, trying to find the Pacific, when the transmission fell off at 1am.
I saw some lights a few miles down the road, so the gal I was traveling with and I headed towards them. About 2am we knocked on the door, and almost immediately a gal with a snake on her neck opened the door and told us to come in.
She made us dinner, while her husband went to my car and fixed it. They tried to give us money, just because, but I wouldn't take it.
Good people, but weird. That's pretty much the kinda folk I met in TX.
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Yes, there are some characters, for sure.
It's not as weird as Austin, but those folks pride themselves on weird.
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Austin was what I was escaping from. 6th St. kicked my ass. With pointy toed boots.
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You often have a new nice story in every travel you set forth.
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Thank you for your kind words.
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the place is beautiful. Who made the statue? Maybe you can tell her whereabouts. greetings @freebornangel
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Well, I don't know who made it.
The plaque claims that it has been there for 200 years, but that isn't what I was told by one of the locals.
It's outside Amarillo, Texas.
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Wow. That's very interesting. Is there a population there?
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250k, or so.
It has all the big retail names.
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You remind me of me, I have 1 number plate off a bike I use, and I swap it to others, when I want to use them, totally illegal by the countries laws, totally legal in my eyes who is right and who is wrong, I will find out, when I am dead.
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Ya gots to takes your freedoms where you can get them, or you won't have them.
I refuse to be their cop of the year,...
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Yes. But the entire police force is not corrupt. Also, what is @crowdfundedwhale?
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Just what it says, it was an early attempt to crowdfund a whale to vote on the crowdfunders.
I don't know if it is still open to new investors, or not.
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