The Big Texan

Free 72 oz. Steak proclaims billboards for hundreds of miles on every road leading to Amarillo, Texas.  The Big Texan is an old style tourist trap-a place with a gimmick and a ton of odds and ends for sale.  In addition to a large dinning room reminiscence of Gunsmoke’s Long Branch, there is a pretty large gift shop filled with all manner of western themed items.  Among the more interesting things was a series of mugs in the shape of rattlesnakes, one of them just like the one Craig Ferguson has on his desk on the Late, Late Show. The…

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