The Tin Lizzies of Albuquerque’s May 2013 tour was organized by club member Orlando Ortega, resident and former mayor of Portales, New Mexico. Orlando named this the Llano Estacado tour – literally meaning Palisaded Plain, but more commonly known as the Staked Plain. The Staked Plain refers to the stakes driven into the ground to aid early settlers to orient themselves in an otherwise flat and uniform landscape. The Llano Estacado encompasses a region in eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.
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- Thursday (May 16th) (Arrival at the Holiday Inn, meet and greet, guest speakers, sunset at the park)
- Friday (May 17th) (Skunk Werks, Grady Senior Center, Caprock Wind Farm)
- Saturday (May 18th) (ENMU admin building, Blackwater Draw, lunch at Shogun restaurant, Norman Petty Studio, shopping on Main St., dinner at the Vines restaurant, Orlando’s tour of Portales city hall)
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Our sincere thanks to Orlando, Melody, and Ethan for their outstanding organization and going above and beyond everyone’s expectations to ensure the Llano Estacado Tour’s success! Thank you also to Robbi and Lorna for organizing the club members in Albuquerque.
To our new friends from Amarillo – we enjoyed meeting and driving with you and we hope that you had a good time with the Tin Lizzies of Albuquerque. Mark your calendars, the next big excursion will be in August – the Los Alamos tour organized by Skip Dunn to Los Alamos! We’ll see you there!