We stopped at Albuquerque to take care of some of those ‘household’ things.  When you are traveling fulltime it is different than just taking a weekend jaunt or a 2-week trip and then home.  This is our home.  We don’t have the luxury of taking enough clothes, or food, to last the trip.  We have to do laundry about every 8-9 days before dipping into the ’emergency’ underwear supply!  We need groceries sometimes more frequently than that.  We also like to get to civilization every now and then to get caught up on our TV shows (however the satellite has really helped with that), resupply from a Costco and/or Trader Joe’s, and maybe catch a movie or two.  Albuquerque served this up for us.

We stayed at the American RV ‘Resort’ at the west end of town off of I10.  This is across the highway where, in 2009, we met the other Airstreamers to caravan into the Balloon Fiesta.  It was a nice park, it had gates for security and we were right behind the office which blocked most of the freeway noise.

That is a rock embedded in the tree!

We did take a few hikes at the Petroglyph National Monument that is right next to town:

Albuquerque turned out to be a good stop.  The area surrounding the city is beautiful, but watching the news it suffers from my large city maladies.

Time to head north a bit.