Albuquerque West - Coors Rd

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 ...

... problem would have to be fixed eventually. Well, eventually is on your way to Albuquerque.
So as I finally found Devon and John's place, outside the city and quite remote, I was relived to have gotten the car that far. I met Devon and her husband John and instantly felt at home. My dad and Devon's mom are old theater friends and I promised my dad I would visit them on the way back to Atlanta. Devon and John ...

... of the group. At one stage Adrian and myself decided that it would be a fantastic idea to let some of the girls write all over us with permanent markers. Seemed like a good idea at the time! A group of us (can't remember exactly who, but the photos from the end of the night implicate me, Kelsie, Fiona, Ben and Adrian) kicked on until about 3 a.m. at which point we realised we should probably call it a night since we had to be up at 5:30 a.m. for hot air ballooning!!

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.

Trip Report Cairo/Luxor Ok, so I have been back nearly a month already, but work has been so busy I can barely even look at a computer when I get home. So first let me say that the purpose of the trip was mostly just to hang around and get a better feel for the place, my first trip to Egypt which was meant to be a once in a lifetime vacation, was non-stop acivity. Up at dawn and run run run! And that is pretty much how my trip turned out, very laid back, always at my own pace ...

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

... celebrating their 47th wedding anniversary today. Rose especially enjoys having the opportunity to catch up with good friend (often-mistaken-for sister) Myrna, who is now at the helm of Rose Incentives, the rep firm that Rose had started in Minnesota many moons ago. Tonite we'll meet up with the group again to attend the conference's opening night dinner event at "El Pinto" Restaurant - it should be fun, with tequila bar tastings, music, gourmet New Mexican food, and (rumor has ...

... map of the earth which shows where the most recent earthquakes have occurred, a fossil center where visitors can watch dinosaur bones being removed from rocks, and a movie theatre showing various nature themed movies. While several of these exhibits are geared toward children, they present enough information to make them attractive to adults as well.

If the typical visitor is anything like I was, then they are pretty ignorant of New Mexico’ ...