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I was in Albuquerque and just finished
working at the Balloon Festival held every year. My next
marketing event was Fleet Week and it was in San Francisco. I looked
over my map to find the route in which I would take. I had been driving mostly on the
Interstates over the past few months as I had little time between
events and had to get to the next city quickly. I had a day or two
to spare and looked over the map for a few minutes to see what lied
between the two cities. Shiprock, New
Mexico- I have never been but have seen photos. This path took me
off the Interstate and onto the back roads.
From Albuquerque to Shiprock over to Monument Valley through
Utah onto HWY 50 in Nevada and into San Francisco. |
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Background Info:
Albuquerque is a city full of fun attractions and
activities, from the Historic Old Town where it was founded
in 1706 to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The
city is a great blend of American culture from the past to
the present.
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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta has grown to become
the largest balloon event in the world. Held each year in
Albuquerque, New Mexico during the first week in October,
the Balloon Fiesta draws hundreds of balloons and over 1,000
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Albuquerque
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Ship Rock landform, located in northwestern New
Mexico, is the remnant of an explosive volcanic
eruption that occurred around 30 million years ago.
The main part of the landform is 600 meters high,
and 500 meters in diameter.
Shiprock (the town) is the largest Navajo community in the
Navajo Nation. The community of Shiprock is located 28 miles
west of Farmington on U.S. 64.
Shiprock is about 230 miles from Albuquerque. |
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Ship
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Monument Valley is a Navajo Nation tribal park,
straddling the border of northeastern Arizona and
southeastern Utah of the Colorado Plateau. The area
is entirely within the Navajo Indian Reservation
near the small Indian town of Goulding, establised
in 1923 as a trading post.
Lodging is located 30 minutes north and south of Monument
Valley in Mexican Hat, UT and Kayenta, AZ.
Monument Valley is just over 300 miles from Albuquerque. |
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Monument Valley, UT |
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Monument Valley,UT |
Utah/ Arizona Border |
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Arches National Park- Moab, UT |
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Moab is a great little town found approximately 40 miles south
of Interstate-70. It is centrally located to Arches NP,
Canyonlands NP, Dead Horse SP, along with many other great
spots. |
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One of the longest highways in the United States
is Highway 50, which stretches from Ocean City,
Maryland, to Sacramento, California- 3,073 miles long. US 50 in Nevada roughly
follows the path of the Pony Express riders.
Highway 50 crosses
the center of Nevada from Lake Tahoe on the west through
Carson City, Dayton, Fallon, Austin, Eureka and Ely to Baker
and Great Basin National Park on the east.
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Highway
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San Francisco, CA
Blue Angel flying over Alcatraz |
San Francisco, CA |
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| My Trip: I arrived in San Francisco and drove
directly to the event that I would working at. Fleet Week is the
Bay Area’s opportunity to pay tribute to the men and women of
our nation’s Navy and Marine services. During Fleet Week the
skies above the San Francisco waterfront transform into an
aerial gymnasium as the U.S. Navy Blue Angels take flight as the
air show headliners. Admission is free. |
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Map
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Albuquerque is located in an elevated
valley between the Sandia Mountains and the Rio Grande in central New
Mexico. It's approximately 240mi (385km) north of the Mexican border and
55mi (90km) southwest of Santa Fe. |
San Francisco covers the tip of a 30mi
(50km) peninsula in Northern California, with the Pacific Ocean on its
western side and the San Francisco Bay to the north and east.
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Related Photography on this Website:
San Francisco, CA
Monument Valley
Moab, UT
Albuquerque
Balloon Festival 2003 |
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