Albuquerque NM and eating with old friends!

I promised ElizaBeth that Albuquerque would be cooler than Las Cruces, and if I was correct in the least, it was only a few slight degrees less. The weather was hot. We planned on combining business and pleasure, as I needed to visit some schools as part of the report I’m writing for the NM Higher Education Department.

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One of the neat things this park has are the old vintage trailers that are available for rent.

We also started our Route 66 Passport:

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We made time to go to the Telephone Pioneer Museum. These are just a couple of pictures, as I did a separate post for the museum.

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Best of all, we had a chance to see some old friends we have not seen in a while. We had lunch with Renette Apodaca at the 66 Diner one day, and with Matt Ochoa and Melissa Fernandez at Spinn on another. You could staff a small size university with people who used to work at NMSU and do it well – and it was good to see everyone. 66 Diner and Spinn both turned out to be new stops in the ongoing search of the best green chile cheeseburger.

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We didn’t get a lot of dates but ElizaBeth and I did eat at Los Compadres.

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I was able to talk with facilities staff at CNM, UNM, UNM HSC, UNM Valencia, NM Highlands, and Santa Fe Community College. As it turned out, I created a separate page just for the pictures of the visits to universities in New Mexico, but here are a few. Notice I can always go straight to the Physical Plant.

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We made it to Old Town because we’re going out of the way to find unique Christmas presents from our travels for the kids and grandkids. We found a few more gifts that we can’t show pictures of!!

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These are from the vintage laundry room:

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We did manage to make a Labor Day weekend out of our trip although the weather never did cool off as we hoped. That’s okay though as we have a hot tub, a pool, and someone else takes care of both!

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