Albuquerque to Mesa Verde and Cortez, CO

12th & 13th August.

We left Albuquerque and headed back to Colorado. The high road into Taos was lush and green, the road out back turned dry and harsh.

There was little in between. No towns, no gas stations. Just a long straight road through red dirt. Well, there was a small casino along the way. Sticking out in the middle of nowhere. What dusty traveller would wander in there?

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New Mexico: Taos to Santa Fe to Albuquerque

11th August.

Boy, it’s tiring playing catch up with blog posts. Especially on a trip so long.

Santa Fe is like Taos on steroids. If Taos grew up, it would want to be Santa Fe. It’s bigger, more touristy with proportionately more art galleries. Up the number of tourists and cars, and you have one rather overcrowded Taos. That, to me is Santa Fe.

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How not to do business

Back to current day for a bit.

I called Starhub. Because lately I’ve been getting a lot of these bill overdue notices, when I’ve sent in all the reply stubs with required credit card information.

Being a hubber, as they like to refer to customers who use their TV, mobile and fixed line services, I wanted to start on a clean slate.

I called their customer service line and told them I wanted to pay for everything.

But I could not.

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