Tag: Big Texan Steak Ranch

Our Trip in Numbers

  • 7,671.6 Miles driven in total
  • 2,011 Photos taken with the camera (add in another 300 or so across four iPhones)
  • 642 Miles: longest travel day (Midwest City, OK to Fort Smith, AR, to Beale Street in Memphis, to Dickson, TN)
  • 151 Hours, 11 minutes, 54 seconds of total time in the car
  • 102 Miles walked/hiked
  • 80 Miles: shortest travel day
  • 49 License plates (surprisingly we found a Hawaii but never did find the elusive Alaska plate)
  • 27 Days
  • 25 Roller coasters (plus one Alpine Coaster and one Alpine Flyer)
  • 25 Clothing souvenirs purchased
  • 23 States
  • 20 Junior Ranger badges earned
  • 19 Gas station stops (some less populated than others)
  • 18 Different beds
  • 16 Christmas ornaments purchased
  • 13 Apples picked fresh in the orchards of Capitol Reef National Park
  • 12 National Parks
  • 11 Books read/listened to
  • 11 Bears
  • 9 Roadside attractions
  • 8 Free hotel breakfasts (5 skips of the free hotel breakfast because we were sick of free hotel breakfasts)
  • 6 National Historic Places
  • 6 McDonald’s meals (we tried to avoid them, but man they come in handy when you roll into a sparsely populated town at 9pm without having eaten)
  • 6 Time zone changes
  • 5 Lost items: camera charger/battery left in Utah hotel room, bracelet left on Capitol Reef welcome sign, pair of Keens left in Shenandoah parking lot, koosh ball down a street drain in South Dakota
  • 4 Bison traffic jams
  • 4 Escape rooms…so fun!
  • 3 Times we told the kids to “just eat some snacks” for a lunch…don’t judge
  • 3 Days of body boarding in the Atlantic Ocean
  • 3 Bicker Jar contributions (each child contributed once and then never had to again!)
  • 2 Great Lakes (Erie and Michigan)
  • 2 Rappels
  • 2 Days with rain that slightly altered our plans
  • 1 number of planned stops that we skipped (Devil’s Tower)
  • Countless Wall Drug billboards, silly family inside jokes (this is Nat Soo Pah), and memories we’ll always cherish

The Big Texan Steak Ranch

Written by Emily

While we were in Amarillo, Texas we stopped and ate at the Big Texan Steak Ranch for lunch. This restaurant was crazy- bright yellow on the outside and a massive dining room inside. All of the waiters were even dressed like cowboys and cowgirls! The restaurant offered a challenge, one person could to try to eat a 72 ounce steak, three shrimp prawns, a roll, salad, and a baked potato in an hour. If they successfully ate all of this food they got the whole meal free, but if they failed, they had to pay the 72 dollar fee for the meal. It is a crazy challenge, would you ever try it?