Generally, I don't eat fast food. However, ever since I first visited my friend Cheryl at school in Texas around the time we were 19 I have had an unhealthy obsession with Sonic, which she introduced me to while I was visiting. I suppose it's especially funny that it was right around that age that I stopped eating all other fast food. I don't know if it's the novelty of the car hop-- which we haven't really had in Alaska since Arctic roadrunner's heyday...or if it is the completely delicious cheesy tots. But I love Sonic. Every time I know that I'm going to be in a part of the country where one can find Sonic, I make a point to include it in my itinerary. I am in fact, so excited by Sonic, that whenever I'm traveling with someone who has never had Sonic, I make it my goal to excitedly talk about Sonic until they too have been introduced. As such, this is exactly what happened as Travis and I were driving through New Mexico. We passed several Sonic franchises, and finally made our stop at the one in Shiprock (where a couple of Navajo guys tried to sell us arts and crafts at the window. This excited Travis at first, as there were knives and spears with what appeared to be knapped stones. Unfortunately, they were metal, no rocks.) My cheesy tots were delicious. As were Travis' mozzarella sticks. It's sad really, how much I love Sonic.

The Whataburger fast food chain was founded in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1950. According to Wikipedia, there are less than twenty original Whataburger A-frame architecture restaurants left among the franchise's 700 restaurants. This is not one of those, but it is closer in spirit to them than most of the more modern Whataburger restaurants being built today. This particular Whataburger is on North Loop 340 in Waco, Texas. I applied a Color Creative - Aged Photo preset to the original shot in Adobe Lightroom to make it look more like a picture that might have been taken back in the 1960s.