Images of Albuquerque, NM

In addition to seeing Jer, we got to check out Albuquerque. The look of the New Mexican landscape and architecture is very different from any place I've seen before, check it out:





They love their chili peppers out there, both red and green! There's lots of adobe buildings and those pastel blues and pinks.





We took a gondola up to the top of Sandia Peak at 10,400 feet! This was possibly the highest elevation we reached during this entire trip. Albuquerque itself is about one mile above sea level already, 5,200 feet, so this was the beginning of about three weeks of being a mile up or higher for us. You really have to watch your drinking when you're not used to the elevation ;)



That's Albuquerque down there and the Rio Grande is the is the shiny little river you can see next to my head:





Look closely for the gondola: