Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Albuquerque Airport-Univ Area

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 NPS rangers always are) man gave me all the gen including explaining the petroglyphs are scratched into the rock whereas pictographs are ...

So, I'm off on my Paris/Italy adventure. My brother and sister-in-law had their flights postponed by the airline for 24 hrs......so I'll spend tomorrow on my own in Paris. I've scheduled a photography "class" for the afternoon so I'll get that out of the way before my family arrives on Saturday.

I awoke this morning at 5am with the intention of making it to the airport by 5:30 for a 6:30 ...

... the phone! All within a day.
Well, I didn't waste much time. There were some lemons to squeeze! I made up with Tami, the test results were negative by Monday, I recovered and spent a ton of time, while waiting on the car, to practice piano, guitar, and paint. We even took a drive through the mountains and had dinner in Santa Fe. By Tuesday night my car was ready and I spent one last evening hanging and ...

... or the fact that my baby was not running. It was the saddest thing to see her on the back of a tow truck. It was also sad to know that she's not going to be running anytime soon.

While it has been a bit traumatic, it's all part of the adventure and we hit the road tomorrow headed to Oklahoma City, OK.

News from Sara:

Today was definitely a letdown. We're were heading east and everything was fine when RC started making really strange noises. We ...

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 ...

... rooms and computer processing areas. It felt a little as if you worked there and had free run of the place. The radio telescopes themselves are each VERY LARGE, the dishes are 25m in diameter. And the array is also VERY LARGE, there are 27 of them in total and when we were there they were spaced out several miles apart across the wide flat plateau between some mountains. They are using the array to take pictures of various parts of our galaxy and those ...

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

... costs $20. The biggest thing I need to prepare is my brain. I'm going to be away from work for a whole month, in a place that is sunny and warm as Albuquerque is getting progressively darker and colder. Often I think I'm ready to switch my brain into vacation mode, but if I did that I would be completely useless at work. I think that the reality of the trip is going to hit all at once, in the airport, or maybe halfway ...

By the time I got through half of the bowl of chile (New Mexican spelling) my body was craving some fresh veggies. Perusal of the menu showed that the only thing of a vegetable nature were the red or green chiles or if one wishes, the Christmas (red/green combo). First stop was the Indian Pueblo Cultural Centre to get cultured about all the ...