After a mostly uneventful day of driving, I arrived in Albuquerque unscathed. Well, as unscathed as 26 hours on the road (in the space of 36) will leave a person. Good thing I took time last night to scope out a simpler route from Pocatello to Albuqerque. Once it was reduced to “follow I-15S to US-6E to US-191S to US-491S to I-40E” it was a lot easier to figure out than about fifty sets of turns through random towns. Google gave more useable directions than the CAA trip planner although I have to admit that the CAA route was a bit more direct. Still, what good is a direct route if you can’t figure it out?
Today was the construction day, too. I knew I’d been far too lucky in recent years on road trips. There was no less then ten construction zones in the space of 100 miles on I-40. Add to that the various bits on US-191 and US-491, it probably added about an hour to the travel time.
Now that I’ve arrived, I don’t have to fret about just how things work at the hotel. Now I can get on with fretting about my purpose in being here.
Let me finish this entry off with,
“Greetings from Albuquerque. No wrong turns were harmed in the composition of this message. They were all left unmolested.”