{"id":315,"date":"2014-08-24T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T04:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2014-08-25T23:04:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T03:04:03","slug":"gallupnm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Gallup,NM"},"content":{"rendered":"

We finally left ABQ around 10:30 this morning after chasing balloons and having a later breakfast.\u00a0 We had to back track a little on the way out of town because we misread the instructions from the 8-map publications from about 6 years ago.\u00a0 But that was okay, we got to see a couple of things we hadn’t seen. Once we were on our way, the traffic was pretty heavy for a Saturday until we had gone about 15 or 20 miles SW of ABQ. Urbanization occurs everwhere…\u00a0 Then we were back into more open road. Places on the map today were: Laguna Indian Pueblo (Reservation) <\/strong> Correo Laguna<\/strong> Budville<\/strong> San Fidel<\/strong> Grants<\/strong> Prewett<\/strong> Gallup<\/strong> At Correo we took an alternate alignment for the historic Route 66.\u00a0 This was a really great drive on a mostly dirt\/gravel road although there were a few miles that had old pavement still showing.\u00a0 We were only able to drive about 12 mph while avoiding potholes, washboard road surfaces and 3 or 4 other cars!\u00a0 This section was about 10 or 12 miles long.<\/p>\n

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Original Alignment of Route 66 in New Mexico. This is the best section!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After we got back on better pavement, we had to go around a mesa and a formation called Owl Rock.\u00a0 Looked just like an owl, too!\u00a0 This was between Budville and Laguna.<\/p>\n

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Red Rock Formation Near Laguna Pueblo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Fidel was a ghost town with three or four old abandoned buildings.\u00a0 But it had a new post office!\u00a0 We found a geocache here that was protected by a\u00a0RT 66 sign. We saw a lot of freight trains today.\u00a0 They seemed to be about every 20 or 30 minutes.\u00a0 It was a big surprise to see the number of FedEx and UPS trucks on the open cars! Between Prewett and Gallup we were finally seeing the red rock formations the southwest is known for.\u00a0 Also saw some lava fields in close proximity to the red rock formations.\u00a0 Pretty interesting. A few miles out of Gallup we stopped to see what was in the Red Rock Park.\u00a0 Mostly it seemed to be a place for limited camping and rodeo activity.\u00a0 Quiet today, but surely rodeo season is coming soon.\u00a0 There was an interesting old post office that we photographed and a rock formation called Church Rock.\u00a0 Then we continued on to Gallup. After checking into our hotel for the night the sun was still pretty high in the west.\u00a0 So, we took that time to photograph the motel signs in warm sunlight followed by dinner.\u00a0 We ate at a 3 diamond AAA rated restaurant called Earl’s since 1947.\u00a0 On the menu they had a selection of half dinners for the smaller appetites.\u00a0 We both selected fried chicken.\u00a0 This was one of the few places that served real vegetables with the meal.\u00a0 Had a choice, too!\u00a0 Joyce got salad, green beans and mashed potatoes \u00a0while Gary selected pinto beans, mashed potatoes\u00a0and vegetable soup.\u00a0 The food was pretty good and it wasn’t a chain restaurant.\u00a0 However, the local population of artisans made the rounds trying to sell handmade jewelry and other treasures.\u00a0 We said no thank you at least 20 times! Following dinner Gary wanted to take a drive on a road he had seen on the GPS map while photographing the motels signs.\u00a0 It was called Superman Canyon Road. Hopefully there are some nice pictures of red rock and a sunset. Before returning to the hotel we made one more pass to photograph the neon signs lit up at dusk.\u00a0 Harder to do than you might think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We finally left ABQ around 10:30 this morning after chasing balloons and having a later breakfast.\u00a0 We had to back track a little on the way out of town because we misread the instructions from the 8-map publications from about 6 years ago.\u00a0 But that was okay, we got to see a couple of things … Continue reading Gallup,NM<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-route-66"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4GgIT-gallupnm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootbeertogo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}