I really wish I could have managed to get this entire mural in one shot. But it was very wide, and I was standing in the middle of South 2nd Street with the sun in my eyes, so this was the best I could manage at the time. I decided that three pieces was better than nothing at all! This […]
When we stopped overnight in Tucumcari, New Mexico, a couple of days ago I was too road-weary to go exploring the wider area on foot as the Big Guy did. But I did manage to take a stroll around the perimeter of our hotel with my camera. And unlike some of our overnight stops, here there was quite a lot […]
As we say goodbye to September, here are a few more images from my visit last June to the Route 66 Auto Museum in Santa Rosa, New Mexico.
As we drove home from Texas last June along Highway 40, we spent our second night on the road in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. One reason for stopping here was that the Big Guy wanted to check out the Route 66 Auto Museum. The museum is relatively small, basically filling one large room, but packed full of classic cars and […]
On our third road trip driving across Arizona and New Mexico this past month we had decided to allow ourselves time to stop and check out anything that caught our fancy. It turned out that not all our little side trips were successful — my failed attempt to buy Indian fry bread is only one example — but sometimes it’s […]
Road trips can be absolutely exhausting, especially if you’re driving long distances for more than a day or two. But if you can keep your eyes open no matter where you are, you’re bound to find fun details and beautiful scenery.
I always enjoy the scenery driving through northern New Mexico, although there never seems to be enough time to stop and explore. Our only reasons for pausing at the El Malpais National Monument Visitor Center were that we needed a rest stop and it was time for lunch; but it was a wonderful chance discovery and one that I would […]
I can’t be sure when this week’s photos were shot, but my guess is sometime in the early 1980s. As for the location, I’m fairly confident they all — with one excepton — show the peaks of the beautiful Sandia Mountains, just outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. I actually drove through Albuquerque with the Big Guy last July and got a […]
As we started out on our road trip across the southwestern US at the end of July, I expected to see a lot of sweltering desert and not much else. So it was a happy surprise to find so much beautiful scenery as we traveled along Highway 40 through Arizona and New Mexico. Of course, there were plenty of flat […]