Today was one of our shortest driving days - just 55 miles from Santa Fe to Albuquerque - so in true style we decided to add on an extra 100 mile round trip. We drove to Albuquerque then headed west to Acoma reservation and Sky City. New Mexico is the only American state that still recognises the indigenous Native American pueblos and there are 19 reservations in the state. Sky City in the Acoma reservation is the oldest continuously occupied place in the whole ...

From Tucumcari onwards to Santa Fe today, and it's another relatively short driving day so we had given ourself time to relax this morning and set off at leisure. Check out was 10am anyway so that gave us a time to aim for. We started the morning with a run around the town, through all the residential streets, getting an insight into the locals. It was beautiful, but we woke up pretty much all the neighbourhood dogs as we ran past! Jo started feeling really dizzy...

Today has been great! We drove from Amarillo to Tucumcari in New Mexico, just 113 miles, so we treated ourselves to a lazy morning and a later start. As expected, there was thunder last night and we were woken up with the loudest of bangs. We had hoped that the storm would clear the clouds but it was still grey and drizzly this morning, with 2-3 inches of water in places. Claire was not allowed to swim in the outdoor pool die to the weather so she was disappointe...