Sunday, July 30, 2006

Blog, what blog??

Ok, sorry, been a bit hectic here, trying to find Internet access and such.
The brief version is we left Dallas about 5 pm, hit rush hour traffic getting out of town. We stopped in Wichita Falls to have an excellent Rib Eye steak dinner at a local diner.It’s the kind of place where you learn the life story of the waitress between the iced tea and dessert. Our young waitress was aided in her telling of her tale with tattoos of the names of the father of her child and the name of her deceased baby on the top of her right and left wrists, respectively. There’s got to be the makings of a county song there.

Made Amarillo by midnight. Stopped at a bar that we've been to before to listen to "Two tons of steel" a good rockabilly band.
We decided that we were awake enough to drive a bit more instead of staying the night in Amarillo. Drove into Tucumcari about 4 am. Crashed till about 10am. Got up and drove into Albuquerque. We stopped at the Frontier so I could satisfy my craving for their cheeseburger I've had for about 364 days.

We decided to play golf at Cochiti http://roadtripnm.blogspot.com/as we did last year.
Beautiful course, beautiful skies, beautiful weather. It's in the middle of nowhere. It was so quiet that on a par 3 I hit my ball 175 yards and I could hear my ball land on the green.


After golf, we moved on to Santa Fe. Well, Mexican Market is going on here, a big event. We were very lucky to get a hotel room. We tried about 6 places, all full, before we landed at the luxurious Sleep Inn. Going to the plaza now in Santa Fe to look at the Spanish Market and get a bite to eat there.

Then after the plaza, on to the road, possibly Gallup, NM. There's a really neat hotel there that a lot of movie stars have stayed at through the years while making movies in that area.