Gallup, NM

Main Drag Gallup NM

We are back at least partially. I am sorry that we abandoned you for so many days. First the internet connection was too slow to connect to the Blog especially for uploading photos. Then there was no WIFI. And now I have lost my USB cable which must have accidentally dropped into the Virgin River at Zion, while I tried to get my lunch out of my fanny pack behind my back. I was sitting on a stone in the river. Since we last spoke we have been to the Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, and now we are at the Boulder Mountain resort in Boulder, Utah, 2 hours in the wrong direction for getting to the West Coast. Marion is responsible for that choice and i will leave it there. But at least we are sitting on the front patio of the office here, relaxing under a beautiful sky with a nice breeze and looking forward to  a nice dinner at their highly recommended restaurant which prides itself on using food of local origin.
But back to Gallup. Entering Gallup, one feels like one is going back in time and down in terms of economic level. Almost every storefront is a seller of Native American products both new, antique or pawned wholesale and retail. As we learned later at the Grand Canyon Lodge this is where all the retailers and gift shops in the Southwest and probably elsewhere obtain them.  It was an interesting place, where Marion shopped a bit.

Lunch at Jerry's Cafe in Gallup

I chose sopapillos--I hope I remember that right--because they match the red and yellow of the New Mexico license plate.