Route 66 Day 14

 Today was a relatively straight forward day.  We started in Grants and ended up in Albuquerque,  80 bicycle miles down the road.  Some up some down, some highway, 1 flat, a lot of back roads of which one shouldn't have been called a road -- was more like a mine field, some headwind but not too bad, and one barbed wire fence.  It was a very pretty day with variety.  We are now acclimated to 5250 feet of elevation according to Garmin and have traveled something like 850 miles.  BTW, don't ask me what day of the week it is -- I am glad I know what state I am in :).

Nice scenery, some lava fields, some dogs chasing us but they didn't seem to want to do anything other than chase and at least one was faster than the guy the other day -- this one was going 18 MPH -- they didn't seem intent on biting us or anything (no pictures), the house where Hemmingway wrote Old Man and the Sea (no pictures and no sea nearby), the longest metal bridge in New Mexico (not being used anymore -- 250 feet long; picture below will show why), and more Route 66 signage.  There are many OLD cars here in Albuquerque -- it has been a thing along the way but tonight they were 'cruising' in the Old Town.

Pictures:

the map that is updated daily 

 

lava field pictures 


 
 
a nice church -- felt like we were in Europe 

my flat -- a tire wire; easy patch


Lunch stop at DQ -- even the travel centers a labeled Route 66, even while most of the customers are traveling along I40.
That old long bridge.  You can see why it is closed.






this is a relatively benign picture of the mine field road.  Still passable but not in a straight line ;)
 
 




 

 

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