Residence Inn By Marriott Albuquerque

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 ...

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 service place in Quebec city. The issue was never resolved and I knew ...

... Unfortunately we were 3 days too late. The majority of the birds, thousands, had already taken off. There were a few still there and the sunrise was beautiful.
We then drove southwest to Silver City for a few days of exploring.

... a surprise given that I was in the mid-south region. Drive by pharmacies and ATM machines also gave the city a look of the laziness that people often thought about when discussing American culture. Stereotypes of America are often seen and when you walk downtown you realise why there are so many fatties in this country. I had gauged this before entering downtown. And the nearer I got to the main action the city started to make sense. This was poverty ...

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

... the accommodations were clean, comfortable, and hospitable; and the tour guides knowledgeable and helpful. Some of the guides were outstanding resources, and I've mentioned those individually in my blog entries. With the exception of some beach resorts where we chose to spend free time and made our own arrangements, we had a personal, local tour guide and driver at each ...

... the surface and is just a wonderful scene of Limestone stalagtites and stalagmites. There were also crazy awesome gypsum formations, mirror lakes, and bottomless pits. The caves were nice and cool, and they had paved paths for you to follow. Though this cavern is not the longest, nor the biggest, they say it is the most beautiful in the world. I tend to agree. Carlsbad: White Sands ...

... writing or art that has survived for hundreds of years. It makes me feel something of a connection with the person who created it. I felt the same thing staring at the petroglyphs at Pureco Pueblo. They were definitely the highlight of our time in the park.

A close second to the petroglyphs were the vistas overlooking the Painted Desert. As I mentioned before, the Painted Desert is a series of hills and valleys which are made of the pigmented ...

... age, not my age. That almost never happens now, and I don’t see it happening amongst my younger peers either, except for cross-sex hook-ups. I came back and visited again a few years later and found out that she’d been killed in a car wreck, right about the time there was a song of the same name all over the radio. Life’s weird.