Adobe and Roses Albuquerque
1011 Ortega Road NW Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87114, United States
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National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
Today we visited the Nuclear Museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institute, and Don and Scott loved it! I enjoyed a quicker pass through. They focused on the more technical stuff while I was more interested in the social impact interpretation. I was fascinated to find a fluoroscope, common in many shoe stores at the dawn of the nuclear age. There was one in the ...
El Camino Real International Heritage Site
As we headed north this morning we decided to make a stop at the New Mexico International Heritage site for the El Camino Real. It's a great interpretive centre, a little out of the way, but with good access and parking (something we always have to be concerned about!).
The story of the early travels through this area - ...
So beautiful there!
New Mexico is wonderful, and I want to live there!!! It was my favorite place on our road trip! When we got into New Mexico (August 3rd), we planned to meet up with one of Joseph's friend's parents who lived in Albuquerque. We met up with them at Starbucks first and grabbed a coffee, then got Sonic and went back to his parent's house. We drank a little alcohol ...
Buena Vista
... Crossed the Texas/New Mexico border (we decided to do so on the interstate rather than the old road, as its super dusty and gritty appearance was not appealing to Duke)
Lunch at Rockin Y’s Roadhouse where we failed on having a 'light’ lunch lol. We were a bit sceptical when we saw the ‘no concealed firearms allowed’ sign on the way in. However, we soon became desperate to see a gun! Haha. We got far too ...
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
... join the circling flock.
I also had expectations about how things would be run that turned out to be totally wrong. I expected the balloons to take off from some designated area that would be off limits to the spectators but that wasn't the case at all. The spectators are free to wander around where the balloons are being inflated and, in most cases, where they take off from. If you wander to a point where you're in someone's way, they'll ...

