We arrived in Albuquerque, New Mexico safely last evening and enjoyed a picnic supper in one of its public parks before going to our hosts for the evening, Bob and Myrna Calkins. They are a wonderful couple and their dog Maggie spent nearly the whole evening by our side. They got a chuckle out of hearing about our camping escapade in Texas and we had a great time with them.

This morning we slept in until 8am, and were treated to a lovely little breakfast while Myrna did some gardening (Bob had special pinon(?) infused coffee that he made us). We headed out then and spent the morning exploring Albuquerque's old town plaza, with wonderful native american creations and old time shops! Needless to say, we may have done more shopping than we intended, haha. We only had a three hour drive over to Holbrook, AZ then so we were in no rush. Lunch was just a roadside pit stop and we even fit in the National Petrified Forest before arriving at our wigwam for the evening! (It was well worth the drive and free because of our national parks pass!! - see picture below) Our wigwam is a cozy little individual structure - basically a concrete teepee(note: picture is somewhat stretched for some reason, sorry). We will turn in for the night soon and hopefully send an update tomorrow. It will be a long days journey to California!

Greetings from McDonalds!! Haha.