Sunday, November 2, 2008

Movin' East - Day 60

Sunday, November 2 (Happy Anniversary to Don & Toni - who forgot it was their 1st anniversary since renewing their vows at Sacred Heart Church in Manchester-by-the-Sea last year!) - driving to New Mexico.

The drive was quite uneventful for us! We left Williams, Arizona at 11:30AM, destination Gallup, New Mexico, about 20 miles into NM. Along the way, we had hoped to stop at the Painted Desert in eastern Arizona. However, when we got to where we thought the exit WAS, there was nothing there but wilderness! According to our atlas, it should have been around Exit 311 in Arizona, but there was nothing there. Soooo, we continued along and finally stopped at the Visitor Center in New Mexico. I have to say that, as Visitors' Centers go, this one was very good. There was so much information available there that it was hard to decide what to take. And the people, all Native Americans, were very helpful to me, answering every question I asked. I think that the Center was brand new, because eveything was in such good condition.

We left the Visitor Center headed for Gallup, which was about 18 miles further east. We had targeted the Wal-Mart SuperCenter in Gallup as our stop for the night. We are now parked in the Wal-Mart lot for the night. Since we got here early (4PM), we decided to take a trip into Gallup, since there seem to be a lot of interesting places to visit here. As luck would have it, everything is closed here on Sunday, so we just drove down "Historic Route 66" thru Gallup. If you've never driven on Route 66, you are missing something. We have had the opportunity to drive on parts of Route 66 in Flagstaff and Williams, Arizona, and now in Gallup, NM. We will be staying a couple of nights in Albuquerque, also on Route 66!!

Tomorrow, we will make the last few miles into Albuquerque, where we will spend the next two nights (Monday and Tuesday), before heading east again, toward Dallas, TX, and Brian and Kara Fugere's, where we hope to be able to spend a little time visiting before going on to Florida.

Tune in again tomorrow, as we hope to have lots of pictures of Albuquerque.

Here's the link to today's web album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/cbenoitiii/TheTripDay60DrivingToNewMexico?authkey=Z5Di6eZ0vMs#

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