Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Midtown Albuquerque

Travel Blogs from Albuquerque

Altering expectations

A travel blog entry by hughonearth

My buddy Stein set me up at a Holiday inn, or something (I don't remember) right in the city. It was close to the interstate, so no complications with the big truck.
I checked in roughly 16 hours after I departed Memphis. I think I may have made it in 15 hours, the governor in the truck was set at a surprising 70MPH, I was expecting lower. I …

So, This Is What It's Like To Walk On Hamburger

A travel blog entry by mikvs

I woke up in a tremendous amount of pain. My feet and legs were sore and stiff. My toes looked a little less like hamburger, but were still a raw red color. The only good news was that my chills had passed. Still, I was in no condition to do much sightseeing.

Fortunately, we weren't going to be doing much of that. The plan was to spend …

Exploring Albuquerque

A travel blog entry by mikvs

I got out of bed around 7:45 A.M. Since Dianne was already in the shower, I decided to open the windows and see what was going on outside. I was amazed to see a large group of balloons off in the distance. Obviously, what I was seeing was the height (pun intended) of the Balloon Fiesta. It was very impressive to watch a couple of hundred balloons …

Morning and Nighttime Balloons

A travel blog entry by mikvs

It was still dark when we got out of bed at 5 a.m. That wakeup time would normally be a heresy on one of our vacations (unless we were catching a flight). However, we made an exception in this case because we had to be at Balloon Fiesta Park by 7 a.m. so that we could watch the morning launch. We quickly got ready and headed downstairs to our car. …

Day 4

A travel blog entry by smr920

Day 4 We started the day with a little side trip in the mountains of New Mexico. First, the sculpture garden. You really don't see enough sculpture gardens. Then we went to a tiny chaple called el Santuario de Chimayo. This tiny chaple attracts thousands of worshipers who come to pray for the sick. Up to 30,000 attend Good Friday Mass. I have no …