Week-end in the south

South of ABQ: Bosque wildlife refuge, a wetland along the Rio Grande. I must admit I didn't spend too much time there, I was litterally attaqued by the mosquitos! Valley of fire: some lava rocks

White Sand national Monument: camping in the middle of the dunes... just magic !

A short passage in Texas: I don't know if friendly is a good word to define what I have seen from texas... The suburbs of El paso were really ugly and they have police controls all over the place! (well I was not far from the mexican border...)

Carlsbad Cavern national Park: really nice caves...

..but a litle bit to touristy! there even is a gift shop and a restaurant in the cave!

Stop at Roswell: town where the aliens choose to land a morning of june 1947...

Stop at Small and western town Lincoln: hometown of the legendary Billy the kid

Las Salinas: ruins of Pueblos Indian Village

Little town in the mountains on the way back to ABQ

Week-end in Arizona: Meteor crater, Painted desert and Petrified forest

The meteor Crater

"Standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona" The Eagles

Painted Desert: the indian called this landscape bad lands... just beautifiul!

I almost wasn't able to read the information and had to back off quickly... these birds are really like to keep there territory clear!

Petrified Forest National Park

Logs caught in the stream bed sediment and dug for millions of years. Eventually, the vegetal cells got crystallised and and the logs gain the surface again while erosion process occur.

Petrogliph and Volcano around Albuquerque

Petrogliph mad by the Indian Pueblo I think
Volcanoes west of Albuquerque

4th of july

Preparation of the BBQ: I love these corns!

Pie with the american flag on top (good jobif you can see it...)

4 square game in front of the house with my house mates and friends

Some firework on the street

BBQ at home and 4 square game (I unfortunately don't have much pictures...)

Albuquerque (1)

The Rio Grande just beside old town. Flood plain amazinglywell preserved!

As far as I went in the river...

Road 66, or the central Avenue of Albuquerque.
Old Town
First chruch, established 1706 by the Spanish
View of Albuquerque from the top of Sandia Mountains (almost 3000 m)