Category: Albuquerque
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It’s the Flux Capacitor, Marty
How do you make camping in Elephant Butte, watching bad TV and lamenting a stopover in the town of Truth or Consequences worse? Here’s an idea. Have parts in your roof top air conditioner explode. It will delight your senses with a loud bang similar to a gunshot and a foul smell of burning electrical…
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Biking Burque
After a month of communing with nature we were ready for livin’ la vida local in central New Mexico and there’s no better way to get to know a city than on a bike. The Spamway ride gave us a taste of the east side – the place you go to do top secret research,…
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Nuclear Spamway
Albuquerque is famous for its history with nuclear power. Sandia Labs, home to the National Nuclear Security Administration, sits adjacent to Kirtland AFB. It makes a beautiful backdrop to our panoramic view from the Fam Camp. Los Alamos, home to the first nuclear bomb, is just 80 miles north. With all of that nuclear energy…
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Albuquerque 2000
Betty rolled 2000 miles yesterday. That’s 26 days in 5 states visiting 6 national and 2 state parks biking, hiking and touring canyons, hoodoos, reefs, goblins, mesas, dunes and arches. The Apple pedometer credited us with 327,316 steps for 132.9 miles which surprised us when we added them up today. With all three of us…