The trek continues at a blistering pace above 75. Turns out California just sucks at speed limits. We tore through Arizona with abandon. Stopping only to see the Grand Canyon... Turns out it's just a big hole with a (comparatively) small river running through it. The girls were less than impressed, but thought it was very pretty. I was similarly unimpressed, but I see it as a nice thing to write off on the checklist of things I've done, 'See Grand Canyon... Check'. We continued along after the Grand Canyon detour and passed through a thick thunderstorm. Nothing to fear from it, but it was pretty. The impression I got of Arizona was: Flat. All the shrubbery was low to the ground and there was just a desolate flatness to the place.
We moved on to New Mexico which it turns out is chock full of 'authentic indian' stop-offs. It seems like every two miles we were beckoned to purchase 'authentic indian' beads or woven bags each shop had it's fair share of garishly painted tee-pees and what I'm sure were 'authentic indians'.
New Mexico is very pretty though the eroded stone hills look very lovely in its striation. Finally we crested a hill taking us to AAAAALLLBAQUERQUE. Our final destination for this day, Albaquerque is enormous I'm sure SF would look that big if you could see it all together, but I haven't even from Vista Point off the Golden Gate. Descending into the valley area of Albaquerque it was night made day. Generally from what I've seen trying to locate the nearest Holiday Inn (and failing, our GPS took us to two different locations neither seemed to have the supposed Holiday Inn we were searching for) I found that the streets were very narrow and the speed limits atrociously limiting. We went through an entertainment district including past a nudie bar where apparently 'couples are always free', how titilating. But we had no babysitters, or desire to trade money for the pretense of attraction so we passed on and eventually roosted at a Days Inn. Just three more days and we will have made it. Wish us luck.
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