Tomorrow morning early I hit the road. I plan on an over-night stay in Albuquerque Tuesday night, then riding up the 550 to Cuba Wednesday morning before turning on the 96 to the 84 north to the 64 south into Taos. Total distance on my second day will be about 200 miles. Should arrive Taos around noon allowing for multiple stops and taking my time.
If HRZ is reading this, I remember a big portion of the time I lived in Albuquerque the interchange of I-40 & I-25 was under construction. I think I was able to enjoy that completion for about a year after it was completed.
My wife worked at 1st State Bank in downtown. I went to pick her up one day because her car was having some warranty work done and I was parked in the under ground parking waiting for her to get off work. Suddenly all of these cops come pouring in the parking area in cars, bicycles and on foot with guns drawn because I found out later an alarm had gone off and here I sit looking like a get-away vehicle and all of these guns are pointed at me, thinking "oh shit, I didn't do it"! Needless to say, everything turned out cool.
My wife got pissed when I told her we were moving from Albuquerque to Lake Havasu. To this day, she still would like to get out of this heat and move back to Albuquerque. I remember getting into arguments with working buddies that were assigned in Florida over which city is actually older, St. Augustine or Albuquerque. Although St. Augustine FL is stated as the oldest town in the country, I think Albuquerque is actually older because I worked with people that their families had been in the Albuquerque area for hundreds of years. After some investigation, I found that St. Augustine is older when stated as a town consistently occupied. However, Albuquerque was inhabited by the Romans as early as 218 B.C.
Albuquerque has tons of history.
This trip is going to be really cool. Although the SW-FOG is being held in Taos, all of New Mexico is really cool if you are into history.
