Sleep Inn Airport Albuquerque

... I lost track of time playing around with photographs that before I knew it it was already 5:45. I hightailed it out of the hotel (which is practically right at the airport) and by the time the shuttle dropped me off it was 6:05. I checked in and was told by at least two of the agents that they were not promising that I would make the flight as I was "quite late" for the flight. No kidding! Luckily ...

... 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 ...

... 66 we were able to drive through many of the stereotypical little po dunk towns. We even drove through one town that's population was 564. This was such a great ride today seeing all the land (all dead armadillos on the side of the road!) We went through one town where they had the Official Route 66 Museum. This little museum was really cute and fun. It was a recreation of the old town centers and Route 66 memorabilia. At one ...

... 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.

So we're back home now and it has been snowing pretty relentlessly for about 4 days.  We have more snow than I've ever seen here in Taos.  My Beemer won't even make it out of the driveway so I've had to take Paul to work every day so I can have something to move around it.  I'm playing hookie tomorrow and going skiing. Next trip:  Dogsledding in Northern Minnesota/Southern Canada Jan 11-17.

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

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... have missed his fiancé, who had two horses, does endurance riding (one of the many things I must do before I die), and is starting a horse rescue organization with her sister! My kinda gal. Their story is a happy one. They've got a nice spread on the edge of BLM land, on the far extreme NW of town, horses in the backyard, dogs on the porch and kittens under the porch and in the yard... in the hour we were there, not one car drove down their ...