Day 8 of our 2018 Jumbo Road Trip.
Albuquerque, NM to Albuquerque, NM. No geocaching today, but we didn’t just sit around the hotel. First we went out to breakfast on the edge of Old Town at the Central Grill and Coffee House. Donna had her go to Eggs Benedict and I opted for the Waffle Dogs (maple sausage links, dipped in waffle batter and deep fried.) Afterwards we drove over to the minor league baseball stadium to check out parking and seating locations. The Albuquerque Isotopes are a Triple A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies and they were playing a matinee game that we thought we might attend.
When we did head over to the game we were unpleasantly surprised to find out that for a week day morning start the place was probably going to sell out the 13,000 plus stadium. Traffic was creeping along to get to parking and there were hoards of people walking towards the stadium. As we got closer and noticed the crowds trying to get into the park we decided we didn’t want to see a baseball game after all.
Instead we took a drive up to the top of Sandia Peak to get a look back down on the town Albuquerque from nearly 22,000 half-feet (10,679 whole feet) high. After coming back down we drove north towards Santa Fe on scenic NM14. We stopped in the small artsy community of Madrid1 where we spent one night instead of two back in 2009.
In spite of it being an off day we drove almost 200 miles and just south of Madrid the Lady Bug ticked over the 22,000 mile mark.