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Showing posts with label Albuquerque NM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Albuquerque NM. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

The best laid plans

Yes I may have already shared this on FB, so if you're my friend, you saw it already last week.
But here it is for my blog friends too!

 My plan for the morning was to visit the Botanic Gardens in Albuquerque.

It was due to be high 80s later, but this was just as it opened in the morning, so I thought I could enjoy a couple of hours looking at southwestern plants, which would also have names next to them which I needed!

 I think these critters belonged to the aquarium probably.

Then before I got out of my rental car, there were these big exclamation marks - two of them.  So I looked hard at all the bells and whistles the Elantra had all over the place, and finally found that the driver's rear tire had low pressure.  Since I'd driven this car maybe 10 miles by now, I was surprised, but most of the indicators were all new to me.


 So I called my rental people, and told them, and they said bring it by and they'd fill the tire for me.

Great service with a smile.

But no matter how much he filled the tire, and the pressure gauge on the hose said 36 psi, the dash gauge still said 24. I was not happy about that...what had made it go low in the first place? Would it go flat down the road? (I had not bought the rental car's insurance policy, so my own car insurance would have to be called for roadside assistance...that's what all my friends told me to do.)

So I switched vehicles...got a smaller one, a Versa by Nissan, which I felt much more comfortable with. I was not interested in all the bells and whistles of the Elantra.  And thus my morning was spent in car switching and I decided to go ahead and go to Santa Fe then.

My favorite ride!

Today's quote, (no not Robby Burns)

There is in you something that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.
Howard Thurman


Monday, September 30, 2019

Albuquerque New Mexico

 Coming down the long hill from the area of the airport...not sure what street I was on at this point...Gibson was one of my favorites.




The five volcanoes to the west...my friend Suzanne told me that was how she could tell the directions in Albuquerque...mountains to the east, of course. Her friend the geologist said there was no way of saying they wouldn't ever erupt again. I left Suzanne on Wed. afternoon to see all her old friends from when she had lived there. We'll meet up again next weekend for the journey home, via another route most of the way too! I'm so glad that she was coming out west and was willing to let me pay half the gas and be passenger (she wouldn't let me drive.)

Looking towards downtown.

 More of downtown.

 Getting ready to go to Santa Fe...there are the mountains to the east...


 I loved how art popped up just about anywhere!

Quote for today:
Fun isn't something that is given or done to you, it is something that you allow yourself to experience. Daily om