As we had missed going to Oldtown Albuquerque last night we decided to go early this morning. We took the shuttle bus from the hotel, it was very quiet as today is Memorial Day in the U.S. A public holiday. Oldtown is a collection of Spanish/Mexican buildings, a collection of restaurants, craft shops and souvenir shops.
There are little alleyways leading to plazas decorated with flowers, plants etc. all the buildings are terracotta in colour. It is really quaint. There was a Christmas shop there, so as always, Sandra and I bought a decoration for our tree. These always remind us of past holidays.
After an hour or so we took the shuttle back to the hotel and set off on our journey.
A big trip today, leaving R66 to divert North. We were in Indian country, or should I say Native American country. At a gas station one of the assistants advised us of a festival with native dancing, crafts etc. unfortunately it wasn't on our route, so we had to skip that one.
The terrain was very sparse, mountains in the distance, earth and rocks very red in colour. Not much vegetation, what there was looked very dry.
We were driving some 200 miles too go to a unique spot n America. It is the only place where 4 states, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona all meet. It is called 4 corners, and of course the Americans have made it a National Monument. After some 4 hours drive, we arrived there. The Flags of all 4 states are flying as well as the Stars and Stripes. We lined up, eventually we got to stand at the point where all 4 states meet and took our picture.
So our R66 road trip has meant that we will eventually visit 10 states instead of 8 due to this detour.
We were staying in a place called Holbrook, on R66, so off we set.
The landscape was now changing, far more rocks, more hilly but adds always the road was really good, well maintained and very little traffic.
After several hours we arrived n Holbrook, found our motel and went for something to eat. We went to a Denny's across the road. It was quite busy, a tour party of Brits were in there. Our server was a guy called Robert, he was rushed off his feet but was very cheery. Several things we tried to order were not available but we all settled for the TBone with shrimp. It was really good, nice and tender. Robert was still rushing around like a loony, sometimes he needed to be reminded of what we requested but would put that down to how busy the restaurant was.
We went back across the road, had a few drinks in our room then went to bed. It had been a long tiring day, travelling some 500 miles!
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