Travel day! Early start! Well, not so much. Woke up at six, but didn’t get headed out of the park until exactly 7:51. We did pretty well – got to the West IHOP in Amarillo and breakfasted, then back on the road by 9:00. I was impressed!

Pulled into Albuquerque around 13:00, local time, about a five hour drive (we gained an hour coming into Mountain Time).

Here’s a shot of what greets you at the border:

Got set up in the campsite, so let’s try out the WiFi! Yeah. Like so many of the KOAs we stayed in last year, these folks are using TengoInternet for their ISP. Well, if you’re speaking Spanish, “Tengo Internet” translates to “I have internet”. But what it MEANS is “I HAVE NO internet”. Or at least, I only have dog-slow internet. Crap. Well, I have my Verizon Jetpack, and if all else fails me, my new iPad Air uses AT&T, for added variety. That one saved my bacon at Palo Duro, as Verizon has NO connectivity on the canyon floor, and AT&T’s is absolutely minimal, but it let me do the few updates I managed to get done.

Anyway, did some running around, and discovered that Albuquerque’s drivers are some of the absolute worst I’ve seen anywhere, and I’ve seen a bunch! People cut each other left and right. Damn! A little courtesy, folks! Really … be nice, be kind.

Tomorrow – petroglyphs!