Our car is fixed!  Well, more like our car is not broken anymore.  They really don’t know why it failed last week.  They can see diagnostics that say it did fail,  but there is nothing to explain why or why it works now.  They did find that the coolant for the electronics was low.  That could explain the issue. 

Anyway, we cannot say enough good things about Porsche of Albuquerque.  Last Friday they sent a truck and trailer up to Santa Fe with a (very nice and new Audi Q5) loaner car for us.  They took our car back to Albuquerque and ran diagnostics and tests on it all Friday and Saturday.  They cleaned it, which is ok; we usually let the dirt accumulate until we get home.  And in the end they didn’t charge us even a penny.  Great people!

Clean, gluten-free car

The gluten-free is a joke.  Sort-of.  We found a really nice bakery not far from the University of New Mexico.  We enjoyed lunch there and spent some time comparing New Mexico and Washington with the staff.

After that we stopped on the old Route 66 to take a photo.  In Red Robin they have walls of photos.  One of them is a street scene from the 1960’s.  A little Internet research led us to the exact intersection where the original photographer stood.  Here is our version:

From there we headed up US 550 toward Colorado.  We had not been too impressed with the scenery on the ride from Colorado to Santa Fe.  Things are much more impressive on the west side of the mountains.  There are more colors, more different shapes, more ridges, more layers, etc.  And 550 is a great road, two lanes in each direction for well over a hundred miles.  We never got stuck behind anyone.  🙂

As you get to Colorado things change dramatically.  The rivers have water in them.  There are trees!  We are in Durango, CO tonight.  It’s a great little town.  Very walk-able.  Touristy yes, but not like Jackson or Santa Fe.  We had a really nice dinner at Mutu’s Italian Kitchen.  Probably the best meal of the trip so far.   And good gluten-free pasta!