Ramada Limited Albuquerque

Am surveying others on how they attempt to stay healthy when traveling in airports and on planes? I have traveled almost every week for over 13 years and have found some ways to cope but am interested in what others have found works for them?

Thanks!

On October 1, 2009 friends of over 50 years will be meeting in New Mexico to celebrate our 70th birthday. The last trip we took together was 20 years ago on our 50th birthday. We went to British Columbia, Canada and had the time of our lives.
It has taken us 20 years to decide to take another birthday trip together. We'll toast the friends we've lost and the ones who could not join us.
Stay tuned as we take this wonderful journey together.

... on Saturday and made a spontaneous stop at the Native American Cochiti pueblo to see the Kashi Katuwe National Monument - white tent shaped rocks formed by volcanoes. When picking up Benji and Katherine from the airport, we also managed to swap our car for a much sportier and roomier Mazda S6! In the evening we experienced our 3rd sports match in the USA - College American Football. The match was a noisy local derby between Uni of New Mexico (The LOBOS) and New ...

It was too cold to stay around at Quemado Lake, so I rose up early and loaded my gear, with just a little sadness knowing that this would be my final day of the tour. Even though the whole trip took two days less than I'd allowed, I feel very satisfied, and complete with all of it. I've learned a couple of things on this trip: 1) I can plan a longer ride allowing the time I need, knowing that I do like to spend entire days in the saddle ...

... of the town. We went to Nob Hill where some of the older homes are. Have you ever seen the TV show In Plain Sight on USA. We went right past the building that serves as the exterior for their HQ. Then we went through the University Of New Mexico. Our tour guide said that the state revenue from the lotteries pays for any resident ...

... walked in egypt like sand and got pictures of petrographs. Tapped some petroglyphs ass
Casa Rondena Winery - Wine Tasting (Tasted 8 glasses of wine)
Elite Nails - mani
Uptown shops - stopped at BCBG & Anthro
Dog House - "tastes good going in than going out" - mikey
Visited AMPM w/mark + mikey
Went to patricia's and ate at pizza ferino - caprese, waldorf salad, blanco pizza
Inbibe VIP - natalie, emeral, emerals lil 21 sis, Jovanna, Josalin, Mikey, Mark.

Benny was so accommodating from the start. We arrived in Albuquerque late but we still made it out to the Frontier Restaurant who is famous for more than one thing on the menu and is open until 2am. Cory and I spent the next day shopping around Nob Hill. We both loved how colorful the area was. Benny informed us that 1% of all taxes go towards the art in the city ...

... but it is amazing how much you can pay for a mediocre meal in so many places. But this place ranks as one of our all time favorites on this trip! We met the owners and chatted with them, getting some of the history of the place and letting them know how much we enjoyed the food. We also had a surprise when we emerged from the Winnie in a parking lot in Old Town. There, right in from of us was a pretty large gopher snake! We included a picture of that too!

... breakfast and then boarded the plane. Emily slept the 2 hours back to ABQ while I read a magazine. We got off the plane at about 12:30 pm, still Tuesday the 8th. We caught a city bus downtown and then another one home, and we were back to the cats by 2:00. The house was still in one piece (thanks to Jess, our housesitter) and the cats were demanding answers, as expected. So ends our trip of a lifetime. It's hard to ...

... where I swapped rental cars and got a hotel for the night. Monday morning, I got an excellent breakfast at the classic Frontier restaurant on Route 66 (Central) next to UNM's campus and then drove the hour or so to Santa Fe. I'll drop the Monday morning photos into this entry to keep them separate from Santa Fe's.