Tuesday, Aug 14 – Albuquerque, NM to Gallup, NM
I’m getting behind on posting my progress! It’s been a busy couple of days, long drives, work to do for my job, trying to post at the end of the day…
Tuesday we drove through Albuquerque on Route 66. As we cleared civilization, the views became breathtaking!
Few small towns worth writing about, didn’t even take pictures, although we drove as much of Route 66 as possible – until we ran into a flooded road, both Route 66 and I-40 were closed due to a flash flood. About a 40 min delay as 2 front-end loaders and 6 dump trucks with snow plows cleared the mud, debris and standing water off I-40. Fortunately we were at an on-ramp to the freeway and were able to re-join I-40 when they opened the road.
With darkness and rain closing in, we called it a night in Gallup, NM.
Videos of New Mexico Roads
And we can enjoy great drives!
While going through Route 66 east of Gallup, we noticed a long back-up on Route 66. We figured we were pretty lucky until traffic came to a complete stop.
You can see in the two videos how much the creek overflowed in what is normally a dry creek in the summer. You can see in the picture how much Route 66 (the service road) was flooded. I-40 was worse before the road crews cleared the mud and debree, and the creek subsided quite a bit. Fortunately, there’s an on-ramp to the freeway, hidden in the pic by brush, and we were on our way.
