Fortunately for you, dear reader, this is a short posting. The bulk of the day was spent traveling, though there was one last photo op in the morning before arriving at the airport…
The ABQ start of Microsoft. Yes, that Microsoft.
The location of this plaque is in a small strip mall. Across the street was some sort of center for the resident homeless in the area. There were folks with dogs, wagons filled with belongings (some carrying their own mattresses) plus a resident police car to keep things in check. I was not going to snoop around too much to look for this plaque given all the activity in the area. When i turned the car around to leave the area, there it was, unattended. I seized the moment, popped out of the car, snapped a shot, and headed for the airport. I’m sure there is a history of the change of route 66 to its current incarnation.
Microsoft had a hard time recruiting talent to ABQ which ultimately made them select Seattle as their next home. The rest, of course, is history. Good thing that plaques like this exist.
The airport was, well, an airport and leaving ABQ was kind of pretty and otherworld-y.
Is the left pic a northern version of the Nazca lines? The furrows of the mountains as they settle down have a formal geological name, i bet. Why isn’t there a rent-a-geologist for things like this?
Ruh-roh…i just asked that very question to Google and there is no shortage of geologists for hire much less other suggestions on how to accomplish that very task. Who knew?
This may have to do in the meantime…
I much preferred the stark loneliness of the landscape to the second leg of the trip back to B’more from Dallas which meant sitting next to an aggressive lady (nervous?) who quietly broke wind constantly for the 2 hour trip until she fell asleep from her vodka and soda which required 3 cups.
One cup was for the soda water into which she poured some of the vodka. A second cup was reserved for the leftover vodka that did not make it into the first cup. The third cup was required to re-pour the first cup’s mixture of soda and vodka into a fresh receptacle. The wee container of vodka was 50 milliliters (1.7 ounces), or approximately 1 shot.
She then sipped from the cup of the leftover vodka and chased that with a sip from the soda water and vodka. I was obviously in the presence of a pro!
The Big World 