Comfort Inn And Suites North Albuquerque

... it was Thanksgiving morning there was barely a soul at security so I whizzed right by. And, yes, made my flight with minutes to spare. I just hope that my luggage made it on the plane!!! Guess I'll find out tomorrow morning.

Then on my flight from Houston to New York, I recognized a seminary student of mine from over 20 years ago. We had a chuckle about how we both look pretty much like ...

... with Devon and John. By now, the idea of making it back to Atlanta by Thanksgiving was out of the question. I had stayed in Albuquerque a week longer then expected, but I never would have had the chance to make new friends and find the real beauty of New Mexico. A stark beauty that only reveals itself for short times throughout the day. If your paying attention, you can find beautiful things where you least expect.

... fit very well with the surrounding scenery.

Our dinner stop in Albuquerque was at the chic Flying Star, located in a trendy art district. Steph had local favorites mac and cheese and a house salad. I tried the southwest corn pudding with pulled pork, a bit bland in comparison, but tasty nonetheless. (When in Albuquerque, definitely try this!)

Leaving the winter home, Sharon came for a week vacation and to drive with me back to Madison. We drove to Bosque Del Apache via a few missions. Spent the night at the RV park for the birds and got up really early to see the birds fly ...

... Indians value their privacy and limit the entry of non-residents and/or prohibit pictures. The oven pictured was made at the museum for display. We're climbing up the side of a volcano that erupted in a tremendous explosion about 1.25 million years ago, blowing off the top of the mountain. There wasn't any lava to speak of, but the ash that blew out of the ...

... the guy had been making a nuisance of himself! She then went on to explain that he starts his engine three or four times during the night, that some else did this and someone else did that, which bit of the car park you could park in and which part you couldn't....

So Mel went back into Wal-Mart and checked with them. Once we knew which parts we could and couldn't we decided to go to a lot around the back of the store where it would be a little quieter and hopefully not ...

I was in Times square in NY taking photos about the crowd crossing the street then i went straight to the airport, get a flight to Albuquerque, there, i picked up a rental car and drove 8 hours to Monument Valley in Arizona, so, exactly 24 hours after time square i was standing in a desert, with for only company a lost dog...actually i appreciated the difference.

I get to the airport in Albuquerque at 4.30pm. my flight is at 6:30pm..I quickly hit the mens room
and eat 8 gelatin capsules of dried, powdered ( fine), peyote. within an hour of consumption
I'm through security and sitting with my laptop and the peyote kicks in."...Woah Mescalito !!!!
..please let me maintain and not have a major freakout here in the airport....just let me maintain and get me on the plane!!!!".....once on board it's smooth sailing...lol

Namaste! I just wanted to get out my first blog entry before I leave tomorrow and let you know how this travel blog thing works (or at least how I THINK it works). Whenever I post an entry on my travelogue, you will receive an email from Travelpod (this site) that I have done so. If you are interested in receiving these email notifications, you may want to unblock this site from your spamblocker and/or bookmark a direct link ...

... was the way that we had walked back last night, and some vague memories started to stir in my mind, though they were just wispy fragments really, ghosts of a long forgotten past. After deciding that we would definitely leave for Flagstaff the next day, we found out the Greyhound times and packed our bags (though by this stage of the trip we weren't really unpacking them any more, just taking out what we needed. Creases had ceased to bother us a long time ago ...