Today was our first real travel day. We woke up at the hotel in Aztec, got breakfast and walked back to the airport (less than a mile). We took off and headed southeast towards Albuquerque, NM to meet back up with I-40. Skirting mountains, we landed at Sandia East Airpark (1N1) on the east side of Albuquerque. From there we took off and headed due east along I-40 to Tucumcari (TCC). Coming in to land, we saw three Marine helicopters lined up on the ramp. As we were fueling up, the helicopters began spooling up their engines and taking off. The first two hovered in place just over the ramp until the third joined them in formation. Then all three lifted off and were gone. From Tucumcari, we went to Tradewind (TDW) just outside the inner ring of the class C airspace around Amarillo, TX. This seems to be a fairly busy training airport. A man met us on the ramp and called the Holiday Inn Shuttle to come pick us up. We had dinner in the hotel restaurant. The service was extraordinarily slow despite the place being almost empty and when the food came it was only so-so. O well. We have another ground covering day ahead of us tomorrow!
The Mountains Around Albuquerque:
On the way to Tucumcari:
Just West of Amarillo, TX:
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