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Holbrook, AZ to Albuquerque, NM Today was a rather straight forward path. All on I-40, a bit over 230 miles. The challenge was that the bike is still restricted to going no faster than 55 MPH. Not a mean trick on a 75 MPH freeway. Cars and trucks bunching up behind and maneuvering to try to pass. This stretch is characterized by long stretches of nothing at all. The landscape is beautiful, but there is so much of it. The differences along the way are more subtle than striking. Traveling at 55 takes a little less than two hours to travel 100 miles. At the speed limit of 75, it takes one hour and 20 minutes. Quite a difference. Another way of looking at it, when the 75 traveler reaches the end, the 55 fellow still has about 35 miles to go. |
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 Stopped at the Petrified Forest National Park for a photo. |
 Entering the Navajo Nation |
 Everywhere, people were hawking "genuine" Indian wares. |
 After a long time, we finally hit the New Mexico border. Then an even longer time to Albuquerque. |
 Along side of I-40 runs the main railroad lines. This is a passenger train of some sort. |
 How boring was it? Cows caught this photographer's attention. |
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Holbrook, AZ to Albuquerque, NM |
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