Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh......Well, you get the idea.

The Albuquerque Biological Park consists of the Albuquerque Aquariam, Rio Grande Botanic Garden, Rio Grande Zoo, and Tingley Beach.

The Wrench Wench and I paid a visit on a fine, late August day, and it was pretty cool.



The Wrench Wench poses in the Aquarium parking lot while the ubiquitous metal sculptures soar overhead



The entrance to the Bio Park Aquarium



Typical New Mexico decorative fountain sporting yet more metal sculptures.



Ribbit!



Heavy, but graceful

The Aquarium is small, but well presented and interesting. The main diplays, at least when we were there, centered around the underwater life in the Rio Grande river.











Above: some scenes from the Rio Grande River display - with REAL BIRDS!




The jelly fish display was very....ummm..BLUE.





A Short Video Clip of the very BLUE jelly fish

The Bio Park is spread out over several miles and the various sections are connected by a whimsical mini-train.



Our mini-train sat on a spur while another one passed

Which we rode pass Tingley Beach....(leave it alone now!) and disembarked at the ZOO. Patti was reluctant to take me there for fear they would not let me leave, but her fears proved to be groundless.



Very Tall



Very Small







Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh......Well, you get the idea.

New Visitor Map!

P.S Thanks to everyone who posted on our old FRAPPR map. Unfortunately when they wer taken over by Platial they changed the format and the old contacts are not importable. We would be honored if you would take a moment to add your location to our new guest map.

Thanks!

The Road Show Team

Best of Road Show Podcast #2 - Horizons Unlimited

In 2006, during the early days of Road Show, we had the pleasure of first becoming acquainted with Grant and Susan Johnson. They are the creators of the world travel website Horizons Unlimited.

I have been impressed from our first talk about how positive they are. Mr. Johnson is particularly upbeat. Even when being held at gunpoint he remained nonplussed. His attitude is you just treat everybody like your next door neighbor and everything will be fine.

Just recently I had the chance to speak briefly to Johnson from Horizon's. Unlimited home base in London and asked him if world events, particularly the rise in energy prices was having an effect on world motorcycle travel. I was surprised when he answered no.

We told me that, overall, the cost of an around the world motorcycle trip had increase 10-15%. I do not know how he calculated that but he should know.



Grant Johnson astride the custom built "Beemerbago."

Also check out the Johnson's how to video "The Achievable Dream"

The Road To Taos

Ever since reading "Riding with Rilke" by Ted Bishop I have been fascinated with with the idea of visiting Taos, NM. I (we) finally made it, sort of. We wanted to go ride the enchanted loop which is just north of Taos as well.

Due to financial constraints we decided to make it a day ride which proved a challenge. I do not have to tell those reading this that when you ride by motorcycle their is always something. So that means we got a late start.

The first stop along the way is Madrid, NM. A charming little tourist town which recently gained some notoriety as the location for the filming of "Mad Hogs."





Maggie's Diner, a set built for the filming of "Wild Hogs" in Madrid, NM









Madrid lies on SR 14 the "back way" to Santa Fe from Albuquerque





AAARRGHH these pix are out of order, but this is Coffee at Dawn on the way to Madrid, A popular weekend hangout for local motorcyclists.




To Be Continued...

Cartoon Thunder Part Deux

Ok hardcore Road Show heads! I sincerely hope you you found your way to this episodes blog.

Instead of giving you the canned story I will retell it as best as rememember. Way back in the never reaches of 2007, just before my fateful accident of last year, I was still working as a freelancer for a certain magazine. The editor had pointed me in the direction of this guy who had suddenly turned up on their radar who was making something of a name for himself with his quirky images of bikes and bikers.

In the meantime, check out this link for a fascinating tale.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=265019

Darwin Strikes Again, and Again, and Again

Last night as the Wrench Wench and I were following our usual evening ritual of watching internet tv, munching chips and tieing up loose ends on the internet I was distressed to read that Everywhere magazine was going under. What had seemed to be a massively funded undertaking by 8020 publishing just couldn't withstand the pressure of printing a glossy travel magazine, even though most of their writing staff was free-lance and underpaid.

In these crunched economic and expensively fueled times, I remain enourmously curious how the travel industry will indeed shake out.

Here at Road Show things have taken more than one unexpected turn. For the past three years we have subsidized our magazine and podcast through freelance print writing/photography and, God Yes, public school teaching.

Of late none of that has been available, well ok I could go down to Albuquerque Public Schools and register to subsititue, but I would seriously rather stick a hot poker in my eye.

Sooooo...BMWeerman has had to break out the keyboards, dust off the old chops and is getting ready to go work in the casinos.....yeeee haa....the music business again......







Road Show Central hasn't looked like this for quite a while.

Not to fear though we do have some motorcyle themed stuff in the can for you coming up including some big suprises, so stay tuned.

In the meantime keep those fingers limbered up.

BMWeerman...out!