We woke up this morning to some unseasonal snow, either side of this day it was like 25°c, so it was real weird. The snow came in patches and their was very little when we headed out to a local shopping centre. While we were in there it started to bucket down snow so we […]

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Here are some of the sights we saw during the first half hour out of Albuquerque heading west, here are lots of run down signs, diners, and weird things to see. [Show as slideshow] 1 2 ►    

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This week there in Albuquerque there is a huge hot air balloon fiesta this is a shot from our hotel room

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Once we arrived in Albuquerque we had a bit of a spin of the city, one funky neighbourhood on route 66 is Nob Hill.  We stopped for lunch at a cool brewpub that had been transformed out of an art deco Ford Dealer. A great set up with lots of old dealer and Ford memorabilia […]

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We like visiting supermarkets etc when visiting overseas, it reminds us how crap the two Australian supermarkets are, surprise, surprise, when these is competition their is choice and value…  This place was pretty cool it was a supermarket, but what a difference, a Mexican supermarket and boy did they have some good stuff. The bakery […]

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The city centre of Albuquerque was pretty uninteresting really only a buisness district but a few kms out of town was the historic old yown and that had a fair bit to enjoy. The precint was all set around a central square with bandstand and nice gardens.  Surrounding the square are lots of touristy shops, […]

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As the terrain was so harsh it was difficult to move people, stock and freight around the surrounding states until the railway came and revolutionised the townships in New Mexico and Arizona. Still today Santa Fe is one of the USAs major rail hubs with huge freight trains stacked two containers high cutting through the […]

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Today we take a road trip from Santa Fe to Taos, It is estimated that the township began over 1000 years and is known as the longest continuously inhabited community in the United States. Like Santa Fe the majority of the buildings were built in the adobe rendered style. We took the scenic route up […]

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We dropped the Hyundai off at the airport in Dallas and waiting for us at the Alburquque airport was this, not quite the luggage space of the Elantra.. but I suppose it will have to do.. [Show as slideshow]  

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Amazing to see the queues at the airport donut and BBBQ shops before 7 am in the morning…starting the day off well before they hit the coral carrel buffet for lunch and BBQ smokehouse for dinner. Sure im a few kg over my playing weight but to see these people waddling like fat ducks down […]

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Santa Fe was about another 40 minutes drive through some strange little historic mining towns, lots of brown dirt and desert bush but best of all some good curvy roads to have a bit of fun in the Mustang.  The skies haven’t got a cloud and its about 20-22 degrees so time to put the […]

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