Quality Inn Santa Rosa
3343 E Will Rogers Blvd, Historic Route 66 Santa Rosa, New Mexico, 88435, United States
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Day 7 - Leaving Utah
We left Utah this morning and headed South to the Four Corners. This is where you can stand in one spot and be in 4 states at once; Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. The center area of the place (all outdoors) has a large area marked out for the corners and all around this are vendor booths with all Navajo indian vendors selling authentic …
Oil me up
Rolled into Albuquerque to my favorite NM Kawi dealer and they obliged with an oil change for my return trip. Chatted with the service manager and a new employee who moved from VT recently. I could make Tucumcari if I really wanted to, but decided to take it easy and head for Santa Rosa. The winds were back a bit but not gusty and leaving the …
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Santa Rosa
I'm just saying there is a lot of nothing between Las Cruces and Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa is located on RT 66, a neat little town about 4600 elevation and has several lakes. Of course, they have all the usual RT66 stuff and still have 5 original diners. Today, it's a little cooler here and looks like we will get another shower tonight. There is a restaurant here at the RV Park so looks like a catfish dinner is in my future - ...
Half Way!
... which sits right on the line, half in Texas, half in New Mexico. Today it’s a ghost town. Very few buildings, we missed it and had to come back to find it. Didn’t see any ghosts, though.
Onward toTucumcari, NM, and we saw the Blue Swallow Inn. Okay, who doesn’t think that was fun?
DAILY ENTERTAINMENT... courtesy of Shannon
More pictures of everyone, but no names. Who is that in the middle?
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Another long day
... of what I just found out are called "pump jacks". Those are those things that look like a nodding dog that pump oil out of the ground into holding tanks, see photo.
Also hundreds, maybe thousands, of wind farm power windmills dotted the horizons as we came south on 84 approaching I/S 20 near Sweetwater.
Tomorrow we have a bit over 200 miles to go into Austin to stay with Bob & Mary Sue for a few days.
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