Off to Albuquerque

Left Illinois last Tuesday to head out to Albuquerque for the 37th International balloon fiesta and to do some house hunting. Not for me, I want to move to the tropics, but for Ray and Karen. The journey is 1200 miles and we were taking a balloon basket to our friends Keith and Tina who own the Skyangel that we crew for at fiesta.

Left early in Ray's big truck below.


Headed south through Illinois

Illinois

past St Louis,

St Louis

and then across to Oaklahoma, through Texas

Texas

and into New Mexico. As you can see from the photos this part of the US is pretty flat, except for Missouri which is full of rolling wooded hills, was driving so no pictures.

Fiesta starts tomorrow.