Hampton Inn Albuquerque University Midtown

Having failed to get to El Malpais I knew I needed to see something other than the inside of my hotel room so I made for the Petroglyph national monument. This was my first national monument of the trip to go with my 7 national parks and my 4 state parks – not that I am counting.

I found the visitor centre and a very helpful (as the...

As I drove toward Albuquerque, I had the memory of Bugs Bunny. This is where he would have always taken a wrong turn... in Albuquerque.
The "truth is stranger then fiction" part of this entry begins with my car's engine light coming on. If you've payed attention, this issue came up back in July; when I was entering Canada and took my car to...

A big travel day! I loaded up the car, with occasional help from Chris, then we said our final farewell to our favorite burger stand across the street and were on the road by noon. We didn't make a reservation for the night, but decided to see how far we felt like driving. Gallup, NM was a logical stop at 6:30, but there weren't any rooms availa...

It's 2:04 in the morning, the day is long and the night is short. I've noticed how New Mexico is weaving it's intricate web of departure. I drive from Santa Fe to Albuquerque a lot. I've driven a lot of different ways and most take just about an hour. The quickest one has to be the Interstate but on Saturday I drove from 285 to Lamy, Galisteo, S...

It's the "reason we came day." 4 Corners. The only place in the United States where you can plant your feet on four states at one time. Ok, so we're acting like kids taking photos of our feet. But when we look around, we're not the hyper ones that are laying on the ground stretching out to touch all four states. There is a platform above the pla...

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 appreciat...

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 frea...

enlavidanueva@yahoo.com for questions or remarks I have been having some unbelievable experiences lately. Yesterday, we heard about Piolin's freedom caravan through the U.S. Piolin is the most successful radio show host in the Spanish world . His goal is to collect a million signatures in support of the stalled immigration legislation and delive...

As the sun rose, the train was back in Needles, and we arrived in Albuquerque an hour ahead of schedule. Walked around the town, joined the library to get internet access, and had pizza for lunch. Road the bus out to the suburbs to the motel, and ate in the room. Exchanged SMSs with Mandy at 2:30 in the morning.

We were up quite early, and quite pleased to leave El Paso behind us. While there was nothing wrong with the city really, spending another day there would have been a challenge to say the least. The Greyhound departed at 8.45, and was nice and quiet, allowing us a double seat to ourselves. It was pretty scenic too, as we were pretty much driving...