Good Morning Everyone. I’m home from my great adventure to Albuquerque and Santa Fe. It was a wonderful trip. I had a blog going the entire time I was there, but something went wrong with it and the pictures kept repeating and I tried to eliminate the issue, but it just never worked out right, so I thought I’d try to redo the blog again. At least I’ll have consistent internet at home unlike the issues we were having at the campground. We stayed at Enchanted Trails RV Park and Trading Post. It was a pretty quirky place. First of all here is Daisy at her first stop along the way.
I found that I need to stop every two hours or so and walk around a bit. I usually choose rest stops or while I’m filling up with gas. BTW gas cost me $306.58 with $45 being for Joey the Jeep. I left her down below 1/2 a tank when I stored her, so I should add another $100 in gas but I’ll fill her up the next time we take her out which will be after Jack recovers from his surgery which is the Tuesday (next) after Labor Day. We discovered that it was supposed to happen on Tuesday and not Monday like we thought before yesterday. It was casually mentioned in a conversation he had with a nurse checking in on him. So that was interesting!
Stayed in Las Cruces on the first night on the road last Sunday, the 21st. Love this KOA. I was settled in a smaller site that was brand new that had a great view of the downtown lights.
My view:
Then at night:
And this:
On my way to Las Cruces I stopped at Exit 42 at the Continental Divide and enjoyed a break and did a little shopping. The place was incredible. It had everything you would ever need. I bought this:
Magnets, sticker and coasters. I could have bought a lot more:
A portrait of a cow for the bedroom – ha, ha!
FIREWORKS: Apparently it’s a thing out here!
Talavera:
I’m going to finish this up this week. Check back for more pictures, videos and adventures!
After Las Cruces, I traveled up to Albuquerque. Susan and I met up at the RV Campground at the same time!
We got Mariah and Daisy nose to nose:
The place was pretty quirky. Lots of vintage campers and a hub cap Christmas tree:
We got to be side by side at the campground:
Our first excursion was to the Turquoise Museum in downtown Albuquerque. It was a hidden gem as far as I’m concerned. One of the partner’s of the museum was a guy named Bob Dan. He started the Turquoise Museum a few years ago and then partnered up with the Lowery family to create the museum as it is today. They took over a “castle” building and created a wonderful event venue. Here is what it looks like on the outside:
I found a video of it and I think I saved it so it might be able to be inserted here. The reason I found the video was because of the 3 story Turquoise Chandelier that is at the entrance and I didn’t have a picture of it:
Here are a couple of the displays in the museum:
On the third day of our time in Albuqq – we took the train to Santa Fe. It was very cool.
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The day before we took this train, we were at the Museum and realized that the station was in the same area so we were able to figure out where we needed to park to get the train. That was great.
We took a picnic lunch the day of our Museum trip and had a nice picnic in a shaded park – only there were a couple of homeless people hanging out there too. You can see one guy on the ground under a tree – I was surprised by the “homeless” population in Albuquerque, but I guess Tucson has it too, but I’ve never experienced it where we are:
SO the trip to Santa Fe had us going to La Fonda for lunch. It was a Fred Harvey Hotel and was really great. The food was super:
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The windows surrounding the dining room were hand painted:
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The next day we went to the Tram ride up to the Sandia Mountains. It was a fun excursion. First of all, we got to the Tram and tried to buy our tickets and the man at the podium gave us a “free” ticket which had been turned in. So then we only needed to buy one ticket for $28. The ride up the tram was really great.
The restaurant on top of the mountain was called Ten3 because it was at 10,300 feet. The view was amazing and the restaurant was very well done:
The next day we went to Belen, NM to visit the Fred Harvey Museum. Boy was that cool!
Displays:
Susan struck up a conversation with Marty and Frances who were the “docents” at the museum. Susan is a Harvey Girl in Legendary Ladies and has a 60 minute one person show. So she is going to travel back there for a fundraiser next year for the Museum. I might follow her there. I’d love to see her show and it would be nice to do it for a good cause. We can park our rigs in the parking lot there. Belen is a pretty cool place.
The next day we went back to the Petroglyphs National Monument. What a cool place. We left early because we wanted to hike before it got too hot:
After taking the hike, we went back to change clothes and start for the trip do the Old part of Albuquerque. We got a parking spot right on the square:
There was a car show that day too:
We went to a restaurant named Church Street Cafe. It was in an old home that was converted into a restaurant. The food was really good – we were in search of a salad:
The mosaic of our table:
So that was about it for the trip. I spent the night at Las Cruces again and got home around 10:30 on Monday the 29th. All in all it was a great trip and Daisy did great. My next thing is to get the generator fixed and I’ll do that after we get Jack all squared away and I have a driver back. So pray that all goes well with the surgery on Tuesday, September 6th. Pre-op stuff is happening today. I’ll keep you posted and thanks for visiting!
