Albuquerque

We arrived here around noon on March 30.  Very windy here. Beautiful area, a valley bordered by the Sandia Mountains. Clear blue skies and brilliant sunshine.

First item of sightseeing was the Concrete Cowboy which I found on a nifty website,  RoadsideAmerica.com Full of oddities along the road. I had to get a pic! It is only the top half of the cowboys body, don't know where the rest of him is.


Next was a visit to J&R Vintage Auto Museum, of course..... located in Rio Rancho about 10 miles north of town. More that 60 restored vintage cars and trucks, really well done. We learned about the Great American Race  from a 17 time participant. Living history. Even I enjoyed it! jrvintageautos.com





March 31, Thursday

Today we visited the outstanding Albuquerque Museum of Art and History.  My favorite part was a  Conquistador & horse in full armor with a description of each part. In front is a wonderful sculpture garden...that is me being part of the sculpture.
The museum offers a docent-led walking tour of Old Town, a highlight for us.... very well done. We asked a local for the best Mexican food in Old Town. We ate so much homemade tamale and guacamole we couldn't
 eat dinner that night. Yummy!



The day's sightseeing ended with a visit to the Hot Air Balloon Museum. Albuquerque is the hot air balloon capital of the world with a world famous Balloon Fiesta every October. We learned everything you'd ever want to know about ballooning!




April 1st, Friday

Today was Jack's day....he visited the Unser Racing Museum while I sat outside and read the newspaper. The Unser Family's racing started with racing up Pike's Peak in home built race cars, all different. Then on to bigger and better things such as Sprint cars and Indy cars where they won many championships. Many of these championship cars are on display. Beautiful! All the Unser racers were crazy gear-heads and would race anything that came along.  unserracingmuseum.com 

We ended our Albuquerque visit with the Best of ABQ Trolley tour. I know, we should take the tour on the first day, but April 1st was the first day of their tour season. Lots of fun and laughs, guides were great!


In the morning on to the Grand Canyon.....