VW Slug Bug Ranch: Panhandle, TX

Another Route 66 artwork is the VW Slug Bug Ranch, which is just east of Amarillo, in Panhandle Texas. This piece is sort of the baby brother of the much more famous Cadillac Ranch, which I was at a few days ago.]

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Unlike the Cadillac Ranch which was built by a well known art group, and funded by a multimillionaire,

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There was no one there to help me, and I was having a hell of a time finding a place to put the phone where it wouldn’t fall over… 

no one knows for sure WHO built this, or even for sure who owns the Bug Ranch. And unlike it’s more famous brother, almost no one bothers to come to see this one… only one other person was there when I visited.

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