Road Trip Adventures Con’t

I know I’ve already arrived in Indiana but I wanted to up date you all on the last leg of the road trip. 🙂

Well Albuquerque with my brother and his family was great! We spent Saturday at the Albuquerque Aquarium and Botanical Gardens. What a great aquarium….it is actually better then the Scripps Aquarium in San Diego! I was impressed. My Nice, Blakeley loved seeing the sharks! That is all she could talk about. It was so relaxing to sit in front of the largest tank and watch the sharks, rays and other fish being feed, so much so that Blakeley fell a sleep 🙂 Guess we wore her out hehe. That night we went to a nice New Mexico style dinner at Coronado Grill and then took a drive down Historic Route 66 into downtown Albuquerque. It was really cool to check out the old buildings and then stop off at a dinner for dessert….yummy!

The next morning I was on the road again. This was my longest day to date, 9 hours, ABQ to Oklahoma City. I will have to say that New Mexico and the Panhandle of Texas are pretty desolate places but there is still beauty in the wide open plains. While I was board driving I took a couple of “road pics”. I’ve attached them for your enjoyment. One fun stop that I did make was dinner at The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX. I’m not a steak person but I just had to have one since that is their specialty. It sure was tasty!! I heard on the radio that there was going to be a big ice storm coming through the next day so I pushed pasted Oklahoma City through to Shawnee, OK that night. I was whipped when I finally found a decent priced hotel and laid my head down on the pillow for that long awaited sleep. 🙂

The next morning I a woke to winter and freezing rain! Gees I hadn’t seen the likes of that in 11 years. I missed San Diego that morning!