9-13 March 2021 Albuquerque

 David ended up working Tuesday through Friday without much time to do much else. Friday evening we got out to Church Street Café for our first dose of NM Food. We thoroughly enjoyed it. Saturday we had hoped to go hiking at Tent Rocks NM but found out it was completely closed due to COVID restrictions. So we decided to get some running done to stock up on our favorite brands since the next two months we will be in the boonies. We then went to Gruet Winery to do a tasting and walked out with a case of our favorite wines. Following Gruet, we went to Trombino’s Bistro for dinner. It had been recommended to us by a colleague of David’s and we were very happy with the food and service. We will need to return next time we are in town. After dinner we went over to David’s colleague, Andy and his wife Debbie’s home. Andy started his tour in his garage where he and his daughter (who is an engineer at Sandia) put together models for a mini car racetrack and an elaborate train set also beset with a total living village around it.  Also inside the garage were two Cadillac sport cars. Awesome!  They showed us Andy’s audio room, which was AMAZING. The room was designed to be acoustically perfect. Combined with the wonderful high-end audio and video equipment and we were overwhelmed by the incredible sound. We could have stayed there for days! But we needed to get back to the Wanderer to take care of Etta. We walked in to find garbage strewn all over the floor! She has never done this before and we were very surprised that she had been able to open the garbage drawer and pull the garbage bag out of the container. She ate an absorption pad that had been under a salmon filet and another that had been under some tenderloins. Leslie called the pet emergency room to see if we needed to bring her in, but they could not give us a recommendation one way or the other. We decided to ride it out, knowing we could get her to the vet if needed.  If she showed signs of sickness we could move quickly. Etta had spent months on the street before we got her, so David figured she would probably pass it without too much trouble. Leslie stayed up late to keep an eye on her, just in case.

Amazing New Mexico Cuisine

Tasting wonderful Reds at Gruet

Native statue