Meowwolf is too important not to make the top of this blog. It opened in March, 2016 and we'd never heard of it. We'd never watched Game of Thrones either. I'd seen it for rent but it came out when we were in Australia and Asia in 2011-12 so we were unaware of the rave reviews. Mike had met George RR Martin at Science Fiction Conventions and disliked Martin, found him arrogant so Mike had not intentionally not bothered to read the series.
Our truck needed a fuel filter so we visited a dealer in Santa Fe on a Wednesday. Service fit us in in the afternoon so we had time to kill. We looked at new GM products and conversed with young salesman. He strongly suggested we visit Meowwolf, a short few blocks away in a commercial area. Next to the dealership was "Pete's Place", a tidy homeless shelter. We walked to Meow Wolf with our sandwiches. Meow Wolf was named by drawing 2 words out of a hat. It is painted on a large bowling pin in front of a former sprawling bowling alley. Admission is $18-adult which isn't cheap in the Southwest but we trusted our referral.
We went inside and ate our humus sandwiches and began a journey. Meowwolf is an interactive immersion. It is an odyssey. Please Google it. It is the future and will hopefully improve our culture (unlike overpriced tourist traps like Planet Hollywood or Hard Rock Café).
Please Goggle Meowwolf. Start a franchise in your town. It is magical.
Next we headed to the New Mexico State Fairgrounds in Albuquerque to watch their balloon fiesta.
Dry camping within the balloon fiesta area is $75 per night v. $35 with full hook up at the state fairgrounds. To the fairgrounds! It provided a lot of entertainment especially for me when Mike watched football.
We loved Breaking Bad and wanted to see locations from the show or at least the car wash. We saw a few of the 30 plus locations including the car wash and Hank and Marie's house. we went a small farmer's market in the hospital parking lot, the hospital where Walt's lung cancer was treated and where Hank recovered from a near fatal gun shot. We met an enthusiastic extra at a car wash. The townspeople loved the show.
Ascension is term for the balloon launch. We bought tickets at the library and stood in a very long line at 4 A.M. only to board a school bus to drive to the fairgrounds. "Zero dark thirty" was painfully chilly. Good that we wore boots because grass on the balloon grounds was cold and wet. With sunrise the balloons ascend.
We drive west boon docking overnight at the rock shops next to the Petrified National Forest and then going to Gold Canyon by Oct 6th. We were reserved until March 31, 2017. I am finally completing this entry on Friday, March 17, 2017 just in time to start traveling again.
Our truck needed a fuel filter so we visited a dealer in Santa Fe on a Wednesday. Service fit us in in the afternoon so we had time to kill. We looked at new GM products and conversed with young salesman. He strongly suggested we visit Meowwolf, a short few blocks away in a commercial area. Next to the dealership was "Pete's Place", a tidy homeless shelter. We walked to Meow Wolf with our sandwiches. Meow Wolf was named by drawing 2 words out of a hat. It is painted on a large bowling pin in front of a former sprawling bowling alley. Admission is $18-adult which isn't cheap in the Southwest but we trusted our referral.
We went inside and ate our humus sandwiches and began a journey. Meowwolf is an interactive immersion. It is an odyssey. Please Google it. It is the future and will hopefully improve our culture (unlike overpriced tourist traps like Planet Hollywood or Hard Rock Café).
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| Beginning our immersion into Meowwolf |
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| Underground we crawled into expressions of unconscious |
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| An unconscious ocean |
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| Diver in the unconscious of Meowwolf |
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| A shark in Meowwolf |
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| Dali-type |
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| Next stop, "Game of Thrones". |
Please Goggle Meowwolf. Start a franchise in your town. It is magical.
Next we headed to the New Mexico State Fairgrounds in Albuquerque to watch their balloon fiesta.
Dry camping within the balloon fiesta area is $75 per night v. $35 with full hook up at the state fairgrounds. To the fairgrounds! It provided a lot of entertainment especially for me when Mike watched football.
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| We met a Rolls Royce Club at the Petroglyph National Park in Albuquerque. |
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| Rolls Royce at Petroglyph National Park |
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| Rolls Engine |
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| Rolls Royce owner tells us how much maintenance he does after a day on the road. |
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| Petroglyphs |
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| Petroglyphs near the heart of Albuquerque. |
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| Kitschy Rattlesnake Museum in old town Albuquerque. |
We loved Breaking Bad and wanted to see locations from the show or at least the car wash. We saw a few of the 30 plus locations including the car wash and Hank and Marie's house. we went a small farmer's market in the hospital parking lot, the hospital where Walt's lung cancer was treated and where Hank recovered from a near fatal gun shot. We met an enthusiastic extra at a car wash. The townspeople loved the show.
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| Fabulous free show provided by touring Chinese company performed at the New Mexico Fairgrounds Auditorium. |
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| Old Town Albuquerque is short on charm compared to state capital Santa Fe. |
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| We enjoyed free tour of old town Albuquerque with museum volunteer. |
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| Oldest restaurant in Albuquerque. |
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| Addition in rear makes for lots of tables and no waiting in Albuquerque. |
After our tour of Old Town we had lunch with a local couple and their out-of-state visiting relatives. We asked them for tour suggestions. Following their suggestion we drove to Tent Rock and hiked. Wikipedia explains:
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument located 40 miles southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico (near Cochiti), is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) managed site that was established as a U.S. National Monument by President Bill Clinton in January 2001 shortly before leaving office. Kasha-Katuwe means "white cliffs" in the Pueblo language Keresan.[2]
The area owes its remarkable geology to layers of volcanic rock and ash deposited by pyroclastic flow from a volcanic explosion within the Jemez Volcanic Field that occurred 6 to 7 million years ago. Over time, weathering and erosion of these layers has created canyons and tent rocks. The tent rocks themselves are cones of soft pumice and tuff beneath harder caprocks, and vary in height from a few feet to 90 feet.[2]
The monument is open for day use only and may be closed by order of the Cochiti Pueblo Tribal Governor. A 1.2 mile (1.9 km) recreation trail leads up through a slot canyon to a lookout point where the tent rocks may be viewed from above. A 1.3 mile (2 km) loop trail leads past their base. The park is located on the Pajarito Plateau between 5700 and 6400 feet (1737–1951 m) above sea level. The monument is closed to dogs.
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| Lots of good shade on trail in Tent Rock |
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| Petroglyphs of a snake are common. |
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| Mike is showing visitors the petroglyph just off trail. |
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| Tent Rock |
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| Miles and miles of land in between Santa Fe and Albuquerque |
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| A cave in the tent rock |
Ascension is term for the balloon launch. We bought tickets at the library and stood in a very long line at 4 A.M. only to board a school bus to drive to the fairgrounds. "Zero dark thirty" was painfully chilly. Good that we wore boots because grass on the balloon grounds was cold and wet. With sunrise the balloons ascend.
We drive west boon docking overnight at the rock shops next to the Petrified National Forest and then going to Gold Canyon by Oct 6th. We were reserved until March 31, 2017. I am finally completing this entry on Friday, March 17, 2017 just in time to start traveling again.
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| Balloons being inflated before lift off. |
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