Day 19 – ABQ to Moriarty and Back
Today was a great day. I’m really glad that I stayed a bit longer in Albuquerque.
It started with a ride around town with the local scooter club. This town is really quite nice, even though Gavin said that we rode through some of the not so prettiest.
Most of the club went to the zoo, but since I was more than a bit hungry, Gavin and I hit the Indian buffet at Taj Mahal. Not bad at all!
And then was the ride to Moriarty and back.
This was the last stretch of Route 66 that I hadn’t ever done before. And the ride out was really nice. We rode through a little valley that they called a canyon and over some hills to Moriarty.
Moriarty is sort of lame, to be honest. There’s not much left of Route 66 there and it’s just a few motels and gas stations.
On the way back, I stopped here and there and took some pictures.
Honestly, not the most fun stretch of Route 66 ever.
After that little trip, we headed to Gavin’s brother’s house and I had a really really great time.
Tomorrow (Monday), I’m checking out the downtown. Also, I’ll be riding down to Los Lunas on old 66. After that, we’re going to a trivia night. I’m at a KOA now (one more in town), but the internets aren’t really working. Perhaps the tubes are clogged. Grr.
Here are my very few photos from today.
Miles today: 124
Miles total: 3307
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i think the tubes clogged your link to your photos as well!
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Eric reply on May 20th, 2008 1:59 am:
yes yes, thanks!
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I really like the Southwest. Albuquerque is a rad town. I would like to visit again sometime. I will be without internet access regularly for a while. My new place doesn’t have internet, and I am ok with that.
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Eric reply on May 20th, 2008 1:59 am:
That’s a shame. It’s how I keep in touch w/ folks.
I’ll try to be better at the phone thing.
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I LOVE the picture of your little garden. And thanks for the tremendous laugh!
That “cool” house really gave me the creeps! It makes the “wedding cake” building in Sheffield look like a master piece of architecture.
(The wedding cake building was built in the 70’s. It’s this really awful round, like a cake place where people get married. And to make it worse, it’s surrounded by amazingly beautiful old stone buildings.)
But, of course, we still like you, even if you do think that a building that looks like a bug looks cool.
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