Aug 14: Had breakfast by the hotel pool again. Pretty easy to get used to this! After two nice days in Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon it's off to Albuquerque today. All things considered it's a relatively short drive compared to some of the distances we've driven on this trip.
Such a mix of desert like conditions to tall pines then back to desert and rock. Temp was 34C at 10:30 this morning. Looking to be another warm one.
Stopped and took some pix at a rest stop. Lots of red rock. Interesting signage inviting people to walk their pets in an area with poisonous snakes and insects...hmmmm....
Stopped at a place, or rather two places on the same spot, that both sold Indian crafts.
One was a little more modern than the other. That one had large billboards advertising it as "Indian City". The other, a little smaller and plainer had a billboard right beside the other and a large red arrow pointing to it's location. It advertised being privately owned and therefore better prices. That was not the case however. The prices were actually a fair bit more.
So off went back to the bigger store and had a $7 lunch for all three of us! Gotta love that.
Arrived in Albuquerque around 3:30. Hit the pool for a bit then off to a Mexican restaurant called High Noon in Old Albuquerque. Interestingly locals told us not to walk alone in that area and to make sure we hid everything in our car. We didn't really encounter anything.
Restaurant was really nice, food was great and they had live music. A fella playing classical guitar ala Ben Kehler. It was a very nice evening. By the way, the bottle Jax has is Root Beer. We've found that she's a pretty light eater.
Back to the room to catch the Bomber game on CJOB via the internet. Jacki did more reading (she finished 5 books during the trip) and Arlene caught up with the Olympics.
Tomorrow we head off to Denver.
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