If you don't take I-40 west from Albuquerque, but drop down to Socorro, and take NM 60 (and then AZ 260), it might take you a good deal longer, but you see some spectacular country. And you pass the VLA - that's the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, a radio astronomy observatory (the night sky is very clear in those parts) which has 27 82 ft. wide radio telescopes. Here are a few of them, stretching away ...
... and whatever these clouds may look like, dropping south also meant that I managed to avoid whatever they were dropping on people. In fact, avoiding these thunderstorms was little short of a miracle - my car radio was bleeping out warnings; my cell phone was making angry whooshing sounds by way of alerts. Currently in Sedona: luckily what turned into a night time mountain drive was greatly assisted by a full moon ...
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