The Long & Winding Road

Leaving Alburquerque we made a stop in the "Old Town". There were some neat old buildings and a beautiful church that has been there since 1706. 

Now we're headed for Holbrook but make a turn south to Acoma Pueblo (sky village). A native American pueblo built high on a mesa. It reminds us of the walled cities sitting high on hills in Italy. The views along the way were spectacular.

Our next turn-off was to El Malapias to see the lava flows and volcanos. But, we didn't know until we drove many miles out of our way that in order to see them we would need to do a couple mile hike. Nevermind!

Route 53 loop described in our guidebook as a beautiful ride through the countryside was way longer than we thought. Luckily we  found a gas station at the Zuni Indian reservation or we wouldn't have made it back to Route 40/66.

Next we stopped for the night in Holbrook AZ where we are spending the night in a Wigwam. We couldn't stop laughing when we saw the place. The sound of the train passing by every 15 minutes or so finally lulled us to sleep. We shared the parking lot with lots of old cars. Walked to the Butterfield Stagecoach Co. for dinner. It was great food....the restaurant....like the town was pretty empty.
We did see 3 Corvettes today and drove another 283.7 miles.