A Traveler's Experience

Historic Route 66 - New Mexico (NM)

I knew I had come home to all the wonderful kitchiness Route 66 has to offer. The neon, the home-style food, the novelty motels, basically the anticipation of absolutely anything around the next curve... unfortunately I looked out the wrong side of the window and I missed a rare Jackalope sighting. Later someone else saw the elusive Sand Trout while I was napping. I was quite disappointed at missing some of New Mexico's Route 66 regional wildlife, but some fantastic chicken-fried steak at the Western View made me forget all about it...

I felt a sense of going back in time when I was on this byway, so many remnants of the past were evident at the Budville Trading Post, the Kimo Theater, and at the Pueblo of Acoma Sky City, the oldest continuously inhabited pueblo in the country, dating back as far as the 1100s. And it was amazing seeing the mountains. I'm from the east coast so the landscape is completely different. It was quite surreal every time I looked out the window, it was quite a departure from where I live. This is one unique Byway!