07-31-04
Woke up this morning to about 65 degrees this morning in Albuquerque,
New Mexico in a Flying J parking lot. Had the best rv spot in the
place - that means it was fairly level. By the way, yesterday,
the 30th, we left Gallup, New Mexico and headed east on I 40. We
took a turn south east alone route 6 I think. We drove 24 miles
along a stretch of 2 lane road and guess what we saw. 1 house and
2 house trailers. That's it. Wasn't anything else along the
road in that stretch, (other than the railroad tracks). Still
amazes me every time it happens. It does happen very
frequently in the west though. If you're lookin for solitude -
out west is the place. Of course, that also means that you're
gonna have to do some serious runnin to get groceries and such.
Don't forget that also means the hardware store, fast food, pizza,
etc., etc., etc. Lowes and Home Depot are not right around the
corner, they could be up to 4 hours or more away, in one
direction. After you buy your goods, you have to drive
home. We were really surprised today with the scenery along I 25
headed north from Albuquerque. There are a lot of nice areas with
actual trees, mountains, fields and such. Most of it is either
used as cattle ranch - or seemingly not at all. Didn't look like
they were farming it at all, from planting crops and such.
Driving was fairly nice today - high temps were probably about 90 or so
with low humidity. Some of northern New Mexico looked remarkably
like some of Penna. However, much of it is like 6000 feet above
sea level. Probably will get chilly during the winter - I'm being
kind here - it is probably **** cold (you fill in the
blanks). It was a nice drive and we stopped at a Wal Mart for the
night - hence the last picture that I posted. We are about 20
miles inside of the Colorado / New Mexico line along I 25. It is
now 9:17 in the evening here, and there are now 6 of us rv'ers here
including our vehicle. Thank God for Wal Mart. I've
uploaded a bunch of pictures that should keep everyone busy looking at
them for a while. Hope you enjoy looking at them as much as we
enjoy taking them. In all honesty, they really don't do justice
to the actual scenery and landscape. Oh well, it's the best we
can do to share where we have been. Takes quite a while to resize
the pictures and get the web pages set up for viewing. Also gives
me an excuse to use the computer. Anyhow, I think I will end for
tonight. Later.......
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