New Mexico (Day 3 of 6): Albuquerque - Los Alamos - Santa Fe

Breakfast at Gardunos in Hotel Albuquerque

Walking around after breakfast

Across the street to Old Town

Convenient location with lots of museums within walking distance

Adam getting a workout in

San Felipe de Neri Church

Stopping by The Candy Lady who made the prop meth used in the Breaking Bad television show

Headed north to Los Alamos and Santa Fe

Jemez Pueblo Visitor Center

Soda Dam and Battleship Rock area

Valles Caldera

You have to stop at a guard station before entering Los Alamos National Laboratory and they tell you not to take any pictures on your way through on the way to the town of Los Alamos

Los Alamos Historical Museum

We stopped here first and got all kinds of insight from this very nice older gentleman volunteer who had worked as a physicist at the laboratory for many years

Derek and Adam with Dr Oppenheimer and General Groves

The Bradbury Science Museum is awesome and it's free

Walking around in the drizzling rain to see more of the town including Bathtub Row

Headed about 45 minutes south to Santa Fe

Staying at the Santa Fe Motel and Inn

Peppers on the bath towels are a nice touch

We stayed in one of the casitas

Heading out in the snow to find some dinner. Adam later said this was one of his favorite memories of the trip.

The long day and some altitude sickness caught up with Derek so he stayed at the motel. Santa Fe is the highest capital city at 7200 feet. Most of our trip to Arizona a couple years ago had been so warm and only got cold when we finished at the Grand Canyon. Albuquerque is about the same latitude as the Grand Canyon so we started our trip this time about where we finished last time and then headed farther north.

We tried to get into Pasqual's but it was packed

We decided on the Blue Corn Café and were thankful to get out of the wet snow and into some place warm to fill our bellies

Lots of green chile cheeseburgers and tortilla soups on our trip