ROUTE 66, STAGE 8: ALBUQUERQUE - GALLUP

June 9, yesterday I went to sleep with some congratulations from New Zealand and Japan and this morning I already have those from Spain ... my birthday This year it will last almost 48 hours! Without having planned it, this day coincides with the visit of Albuquerque, and for some Breaking Bad geeks like us, this only means one thing: that they give to Route 66 (for a raaaaato) and we will visit the locations of the Serie!

What we didn't have was meeting the Breaking Bad AUTOCARAVANA! Ok, it's not the same, but it's exact! We crossed it at the first stop, Jessy's house, and when we read the back sign we couldn't believe it! It is the Breaking Bad! There is no better gift!

So nothing, we dedicate ourselves to sticking to his ass, forgetting the mapita we had prepared, and discovering each of the most interesting places in the series: the Chicken Chickens, the Motel where Frank tries to teach Walter JR a lesson, the Jessy and Jane's twin houses, the car wash ... and a few more! Until we arrived at Walter's house, here we went ahead to the caravan of the tour and what we saw surprised us quite a lot ... The owners are quite old, sitting in two little chairs inside the garage, with the door open and with the face of not many friends ... First they let us go ... "Grrrr, you can take a picture from the street in front." We did so, until a neighbor asks us, literally "Have they yelled at you yet?" Well, that seems to be a bit to the huevs of the blue goal.

Oh, and one thing that we cannot forget, at the Pollos Hermanos stop, the tour guide and driver approaches us to ask if we are the ones who are chasing him through Albuquerque! The guy is very nice, he showed us the caravan inside and even gave us some bags with these blue crystals of 96% purity (vaaaale, these are goody ... but is not a good gift?)

He was not the only one who took me from this visit. At the stop at a car workshop, where they leave the motorhome in the series to repair it, the lady owner of the super friendly place approached me to ask me little things and tell me the experience of filming. And the aunt does not go and gives me some pictures that she took of the actors when they were there!

If we haven't said it before, people in the United States are cool!

So that's how we spent the morning, but we didn't want to leave Albuquerque without changing the chip again and we came to eat at Dinner 66, a super handsome restaurant, with route decoration and total road atmosphere! And look, it happens that if it's your birthday they give you the food.

We put the batteries to go back to the road: 40 West, direction Arizona! Although we will not leave the state of New Mexico until tomorrow. For a couple of days, Route 66 has been running for what is now Interstate 40. In recent days we have taken the opportunity to pull a good part of this road, but we recommend that if you have time, travel along the road that runs parallel, the right part almost always. It is not continuous and sometimes we will have to go back to 40, but it will go through very cool villages and super peculiar landscapes.

Today we have gone through Grants, with posters and some harvest ... but what we liked most have been the plains of New Mexico, huge esplanades of moors cut by the road and by the train track where the very long neighborhoods circulate. And in the distance, the red mountains cut in steps and the sun increasingly below ...

There is an area after Grants with mountains similar to those we visited the day before, but more reddish. It's called the Red Rock National Park. We don't visit it, but if you have time, it can be a good idea.

We arrived at Gallup at a good time, to sleep we pulled back from the joker of the Walmart parking lot, although you can also spend the night at the Navajo Red light casino (or something like that), a few miles before arriving. It has nothing remarkable, just a parking lot, but the place is quite beautiful (and if you want to try your luck in the little machines, then there you have it).