Day 12: Albuquerque (pics to come)

We slept in this morning, because last nights sleep wasn't that good. The Walmart in Flagstaff had yellow lights which were quite pleasant, but the one in Gallup had ones that made us think the sun was rising every time we opened our eyes. It was very confusing and made for some broken sleeep. When we finally arose, we drove the last two hours to Albuquerque, stopping to eat some cornflakes along the way. We headed straight down what will probably be our last section of Route 66 into the Old Town section. We headed into a beautiful tree filled plaza, lined with very old adobe houses, and found a little Mexican restaurant to have lunch. The corn chips and salsa they put on the table was very nice, but it had quite a kick to it. A couple of Casa Blanca beers and some Sangria for Alex helped soothe the burn.

After lunch we took a walk around town, and visited the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. The first part of the museum was straight art gallery style, with some nice paintings, but no real context to appreciate them in. The second part was a history of Albuquerque from its roots as an outpost of New Spain to the American Civil War. There were so many artifacts, pottery, armour, books, guns, swords, a Model-T Roadster, I spent 2 hours wandering through, looking at everything. I really wish I could have taken photos.

After the broken sleep we had the night before, we decided to have a very early night, so we drove to the Albuquerque Walmart, rented a DVD (Whatever Works, a Woody Allen movie starring Larry David – very funny) and went to sleep.