Park Plaza Hotel Albuquerque

... dwellings we’d seen the day before in San Miguel Ignacio. We made it to Old Town Albuquerque about a half-hour after we left the Balloon Fiesta Park. As one can probably deduce from the name, Old Town Albuquerque is the area where Albuquerque ...

... look down on the other balloons lifting off from the Park and inflating on the ground.  Later we slowly drifted near downtown Albuquerque.  Most of the time we were quite low and you could hear and be heard by people on the ground.  After ...

... the balloons had landed we left. We spent much of the afternoon at Petroglyph National Monument, a 7,000 acre park to the west from Albuquerque.  The main focus of the park is an estimated 25,000 carvings by Ancestral Pueblo ...

My family and I went back to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta very early this morning.  It is the sixth day of the event but the third day for us since we took some time to go sightseeing.  The Glow this morning wasn't as interesting ...

... back to the hotel.  I said goodbye to my family as they headed to the airport.  I spent the rest of the day hanging around the hotel.  I'll be leaving tomorrow morning and starting my drive home to Virginia.  My trip is nearly ...

... shapes inflating so it was still interesting even though very few balloons flew. After most of the balloons had deflated we went back to the hotel.  The plan was for all of us to come back in the evening but when the time came to leave it was just ...

... ; We thought we had some pretty good kids places back home, but this one is hands-down, thumbs-up awesome! Driving through Albuquerque along the original Route 66 path led us past some superb authentic relics from the old days, one notably was an old ...

... last days and have not tired of the ever changing views we have seen. We moved on from Las Cruces and arrived in Albuquerque. This is a lovely town with an historic centre full of lovely old Spanish style buildings and filled with art shops and jewellery ...

... Albuquerque Holiday Inn.  It was nothing fancy, but it met the standards one expects with a hotel chain.  I recommend staying there if one is in Albuquerque.   Since we had several stops planned, we wanted a big breakfast in order to ...