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A Weekend in Vega, a Quirky Little Town Along Route 66
You might be tempted to buzz past Vega on Interstate 40, but if you pull off, you’ll get to experience a few truly Texan things. You could walk inside the blade of a West Texas wind turbine. You could see a real (dead) rattlesnake, stiff from the freezer. And to top it off, you could down a slice of coconut-cream pie at a cafe that has saddles mounted on its bar stools.The seat of Oldham County, Vega lies 35 miles west of Amarillo, sandwiched between the stripe in the road that marks the midway point of Old Route 66, in Adrian, and the feedlots of Wildorado. I spent the good part of a cool November day exploring the Panhandle town (population less than 900), whose…The post A Weekend in Vega, a Quirky Little Town Along Route 66 appeared first on Texas Monthly.