Breaking Mad

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What to do in Albuquerque, NM? Not much!

Before Breaking Bad I did’t take notice of Albuquerque and I’m sure that I’m not alone. I think the tv series has put Albuquerque on the map. It’s like with the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain. Nobody knew Bilbao before.

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Of course I had to visit Albuquerque on my last years trip to the USA when I was on my way to Alamogordo. But despite the fact that I watched to whole series I still had no clear picture in my mind. When I travel to new places I often just make a google picture search to get a first impression. Usually this me an idea about the place and also reveals the landmark of the city. There is no need to do this for San Francisco, Paris or Singapore but when you go to Hyderabad, India google images can be very useful.

For Albuquerque the google picture search doesn’t bring up any results. There is no landmark and the skyline is boring. It is nicely located in front of a mountain range and there seems to be a balloon festival once a year. But unless you are in a helicopter or you happen to be there when the balloon festival takes place there are not a lot of attractions. Beside the “Crystal Palace” of course that I already covered in a blog post in July.

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After the Crystal Palace we went to see the old town. I learned not expect too much when it comes to old towns in the US and it makes sense. This is a very young nation. If you look for history look elsewhere.

The place was nice but the real stars here are the wide, blue skies and the sun and of course the fact that I was in the home town of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.

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