Also among the photos I scanned yesterday are two that Lisa took from a visit to the Santa Fe Southern Railroad. This time it was when she was driving through Lamy sometime in the 1990s. (She cannot recall exactly when these were taken, and there's nothing else with the photos that would help us tie it down.) She didn't ride the train this time, ( Read more... )

Thanks to finding a loose bell cart hanging around in the Hyatt's parking garage, we were able to get moved out of our hotel room in only three trips instead of the anticipated six. We bade farewell to our friends who were hanging around the lobby waiting to go to the airport, checked out of the hotel, and just after noon set out for the first leg ( Read more... )

Our original plan for today was to drive to Gallup, New Mexico, but for reasons described below, we cut that back to make the trip Amarillo TX to Grants NM, 356 miles per Google Maps. Our actual distance traveled was 380 miles including some detours.

( Morning Trains in Amarillo )

Today's journey was relatively short: Google Maps put it at 229 miles. Compared to Days 2 and 3, that's no big deal, and while we ended up spending about eight hours on the road, that included time to actually stop and look at things.

( Fort Sumner's Most Famous Resident )

I spent most of today working on Day Jobbery, including declining an invitation to a conference call tomorrow morning from someone who should have well known by now that I am on vacation from tomorrow through a week from Friday, but so it goes. Lisa went and visited with her friend Nan (they go back to Lisa's Los Alamos days), and then early this ( Read more... )

Today's route of travel was a mere 361 miles according to Google Maps, and we got away from Williams an hour earlier than planned, despite the passenger door continuing to balk at unlocking in the cold.

( Following Historic Route 66 )

Today's trip was relatively short (only 225 miles) because we'd left room in the schedule to visit the Roswell Museum.

( Welcome to Roswell. Aliens Welcome )

This morning we were quite late leaving Albuquerque because Lisa and I met for breakfast with her friend slymongoose and her partner, Groot. We had a fine leisurely breakfast at the Gold Street Cafe and Lisa and her friend caught up on old times. Lisa was very happy. Then we headed up to Santa Fe to deal with the family business, which went well, but took ( Read more... )

When we were packing the van back in Fernley, I saw Lisa put one of our umbrellas in the back. "Why are you packing that?" I asked ( Read more... )