Blogs from New Mexico, United States, North America - page 75

Geo: 35.5278, -108.7447:00 p.m.Days Inn on Highway 66 (old Route 66) exit 20 off of Highway 40 $55.022nd floor nonsmokingI was supposed to be on 1st but when I pulled up to my door, a man was standing in the doorway in the room next to mine. He was wearing only his pants and smoking in a nonsmoking building! So I backed out of my parking spot and went back to the front desk to change my room. Ordered pizza from Papa John for $16.54 and watched TV for about an hour. Then tried to go online. I could access my email but nothing else, so I went to bed to read a book for about an hour.... read more

Rats, we left our UBS cord at home so no picture today and it is so beautiful here, just kidding !! I'll try to find one tomorrow so you all won't miss this awesome view, tee hee. If nothing else this is a test to see if I am doing this blogging thing right. Someone needs to let me know. On to see Katie in Albuquerque tomorrow, pictures, maybe?? Westward Ho !! ... read more

Hello All; For those of you that haven't heard, we're back! It was a wonderful, fun, adventure-filled 10 months. We're already planning our next adventure, it's just so hard to choose from all the wonderful places our planet has to offer. Of course, we need to work for a little while before setting off on the next big adventure. Until then we'll have alot of smaller adventures. I will continue to post blogs of places we visit close to home, that you might also be interested in visiting. We have settled in Albuquerque, have a great new place, bought a Smart Car today. So cute, and cool. It's been very fun changing cities, getting a new place, buying new furniture, changing careers, etc.. Let us hear from you if we haven't seen you yet. And to ... read more

Got up this morning packed up and rode down into Palo Duro Canyon State Park. Left Canyon for Angel Fire New Mexico. Miles today 252 Total Miles 901... read more

Keeping with the tradition of dragging the children and half of our possessions into the wild blue yonder during the worst possible Spring weather, we pointed the truck and newly obtained pop-up camper into the 30mph headwind this weekend and headed south to new pastures. While we are well-versed in the lay of Utah, Arizona and Colorado lands, New Mexico presents a large blank area on our mental maps. Perhaps it is the less-than-inspiring visual gauntlet between our house and said destinations that has thus far deterred extensive exploration to the south, perhaps it's the easy attractiveness of the wild and beautiful spaces in every other direction. For whatever reason, we just don't get down that way very often. So we headed for Chaco or more distinctly, the Chaco Culture National Historic Park. While cathedrals were ... read more