Yes, it’s only 60 miles from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, but it took us nearly all day to get there.\u00a0 We left at SF 8 AM and arrived ABQ at 3:30-ish!<\/p>\n
But there was a side trip a couple a few miles out of SF called the La Bajada.\u00a0 Of course, it had a cache.\u00a0 Only thing is we had to walk up hill to get it.\u00a0 It was located on a really old section of the historic route 66 that is today only passable via high clearance 4-wheel drive vehicles.\u00a0 Lots of curves, big rocks and wash outs.\u00a0 However, we did see two such vehicles making the trek during hour hike up to get the cache which took us about an hour to get to the top.\u00a0 It was 1.67 miles.\u00a0 Only 37 minutes to return to the car.\u00a0 Gravity works better going down!<\/p>\n
As we neared ABQ Joyce wanted to see the Petraglyph National Monument.\u00a0 So, we stopped and spent about an hour walking on the Boca Negra trail which, you guessed it, was mostly up.\u00a0 We saw quite a few of the petraglypys on the rocks for hundreds to thousands of years old made by the ancient Pueblo people who inhabited the Rio Grande river valley.<\/p>\n
Arriving at our hotel, another Best Western, we decided the weather might be better tonight\u00a0 for taking the Sandia Peak Tram up to the top in hopes of getting great pictures and a nice dinner.\u00a0\u00a0 We hurried out of the hotel and up the road to get there in time to take the 5 PM tram to the top for our dinner reservations at the High Finance Restaurant.\u00a0 Yep, high finance alright!\u00a0 As usual we shared an entr\u00e9e and both were too full for dessert.<\/p>\n
We stayed on top until just after sunset taking the tram back down.<\/p>\n
Although there was a geocache located in the parking lot, we didn’t find it.\u00a0 Then followed the Garmin nuvi back to the hotel by some different route than we got there.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, depending on the weather is ABQ day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes, it’s only 60 miles from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, but it took us nearly all day to get there.\u00a0 We left at SF 8 AM and arrived ABQ at 3:30-ish! But there was a side trip a couple a few miles out of SF called the La Bajada.\u00a0 Of course, it had a cache.\u00a0 … Continue reading Santa Fe to Albuquerque (Thursday)<\/span>