going to ABQ
Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 06:00 PM
I really like the Amarillo Comfort Inn. I had a nice breakfast of eggs and sausage from the buffet then took some pics outside of rusted antique cars and pickup trucks. Headed West on 40 and noted that there were a lot of people around the Cadillac ranch cars. The cows also moved forward to around the people and the cars. The trip across the Texas plains was fascinating. The landscape changes so fast. When I crossed into NM it really changed a lot into hilly desert country. I bought gas just outside Albuquerque at 2.79. I called Libbie around noon. She was just getting to the airport and I was just arriving in ALBQ. I went to the Art Museum and hung around for a few hours. The special exhibit of Turner to Cezanne was nice but the museum itself was not that great. I still had more time and talked to Libbie while she changed planes in Dallas. I decided and she thought it was a good idea to visit the Nuclear museum. Wow, what a trip. This place is devoted to nuclear bombs all labeled with megatonnage and delivery system. Out back there were minuteman missiles and a B52 nuclear boomber. When I was done I walked around Old Town then made my way the back way to the airport across the campus. What a bleak and dismal place ALBQ is. At the airport I parked in an aircraft observation area and watched planes landing and taking off. I even saw Libbie's 6:40 American Airline plane land at 6:43. Not bad. I waited till she called then went to the luggage area and picked her up. We went to Old Town and had a nice dinner with a Margarita on the porch of La Hacienda. We drove in the dark up I-25 to Santa Fe and found Romero St but had a little difficulty finding the Benziger condo in the dark. We had the wrong address but eventually found our way and unloaded the car and went to sleep. |
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