Today we started our adventure by riding the Sandia Peak Tramway. The tramway was built in 1964 and the lower terminal where you board sits at 6559 ft above sea level , where as the top terminal where you exit sits at 10378. It climbs/descends at a speed of about 13mph.
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| This rock formation is called Three Story Dory. Once the tram reaches this area, we are three stories high. |
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| The rock balancing on the top of this cliff is relatively the same size as the tram car. |
In the last picture you see a small cabin at the top of the cliff. This cabin was originally built of wood for the men who were building the tramway in the 1960's to stay in. However the first cabin caught fire and burned down. They rebuilt it out of wood again. The second cabin blew off the ridge. The winds up there are crazy. So the third time they built it out of rock and it has sat there on the cliff ever since. It is no longer used for lodging but you can hike over along the ridgeline to it.
After the tramway, we visited the small New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum in downtown ABQ.
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| This book contains only one word-Jew. 40 columns, 120 lines 625 sheets, 1250 pages |
The last picture shows a tube with approximately 11,000,000 seeds, each representing the life of one of the 11,000,000 people killed by Hitler and his Nazi followers. Look closely and you can see the at the bottom there are 1,500,000 Jewish children. In the middle it says 4,500,000 Jewish adults but if you look at the top section it says 5,000,000 Non-Jews. I know I often forget that it wasn't just the Jewish people who were persecuted and killed. I thought this was a great way to remind us of that fact.
After the Holocaust Museum, we drove the Turquoise Trail from ABQ to Santa Fe with a quick stop in Madrid to see Maggie's Diner from the movie Wild Hogs.
Wait for Day 4--scavenger hunt in Santa Fe. Should be fun!
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