Day 2 on the road to Yellowstone

Let me sum up the last two days:

Yesterday, Manny and I were on the road at 645am trying to beat rush hour on 1604 – we drove out I-10 to Fort Stockton (pictured above with the giant roadrunner), and then took Highway 285 North into New Mexico.  This included several small towns with names the likes of which I have already forgotten (or maybe that’s because they were more like speed traps than anything else …) and then drove through Roswell which included a drink stop at the flying saucer McDonalds.  Then we drove another forever and finally ended up in Albuquerque.  And promptly passed out without a blog entry.

Today, we got up and went to Santa Fe, had breakfast at the famous Tecolote Cafe – complete with Christmas red and green chiles – and hung out around the Plaza for a bit.  Then back on the road and up to Taos.  If you’re ever in Taos and in need of frybread (because it’s freaking awesome), I highly recommend Tiwa’s Kitchen on the reservation by the old pueblo.  We got some frybread sticks with chokecherry juice and a couple of Indian teas to go – SO GOOD.  Then we took pictures at the Rio Grande river gorge:

Rio Grande river gorge

We saw 3 of the only 300 bighorn sheep in New Mexico there, which was pretty cool.  Then we drove forever again (part of which involved narrow mountain roads in a rainstorm) and ended up where we are tonight – Colorado Springs.

Tomorrow the itinerary involves attempting a drive through Rocky Mountain National Park, weather permitting.  I would also like to take the time to sing praises for Priceline, who has come through for us twice so far this week, and we’re working on getting a 3rd reservation for Saturday night.  Friday night we’re staying in a room that’s  normally $180/night for $40.  Who knows how to travel cheap?  <– This lady.  No namby-pambys here.

~ by Jess on May 21, 2009.