Morning in Albuquerque found us in a cold (15 degrees) but beautiful city. We wished we had allowed more time to see the town, but we had reservations in San Antonio the next two nights, so we files this one away for a future trip and set off for San Antone. 
On the way is an interesting little town known as Roswell, New Mexico. Even the McDonalds in town has a UFO theme to it. This is the one time that the Navigator let us down. We were looking for the post office in town, and apparently they had built a new one, and the old one is now the transit office. After driving in circles around town we finally gave up and took off. Never did find that post office. The farther east and south
you travel in New Mexico, and on into Texas the more oil derricks you see. By the time we stopped for lunch in Denver City Texas we had even run across the world (and liberal nut-case) famous Haliburton. It reminded me how much I would really
like to have a Bush-Cheney 08 sticker for driving around back in Portland.
On the way is an interesting little town known as Roswell, New Mexico. Even the McDonalds in town has a UFO theme to it. This is the one time that the Navigator let us down. We were looking for the post office in town, and apparently they had built a new one, and the old one is now the transit office. After driving in circles around town we finally gave up and took off. Never did find that post office. The farther east and south you travel in New Mexico, and on into Texas the more oil derricks you see. By the time we stopped for lunch in Denver City Texas we had even run across the world (and liberal nut-case) famous Haliburton. It reminded me how much I would reallylike to have a Bush-Cheney 08 sticker for driving around back in Portland. We were right to trust the Navigator on this trip as she saved us over 100 miles compared to the routes laid out by Google and Rand McNally. We saw a great deal of the backroads of the two states, whuch was one of the reasons we took the trip. A little over thirteen hours, and 630 miles, later we arrived in San Antonio. Again the Navigator saved us because the place we were staying was downtown on the riverwalk, and caused us to take a route that made me feel like we were trying to elude a tail. We found out that the Riverwalk was right outside our hotel window, and the Alamo was 2 1/2 blocks away. Finally it looks like a day where we will get to not spend the day driving!
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