Up early and continuing towards Albuquerque. We saw a petrified forest which was interesting to see. The trees that have fallen here millions of years ago had been in contact with a special type of environment not found in many places that had caused the trees to become like stone. It was very weird to see a tree trunk on the ground and then touching it only to find out that it only looked like a tree but felt and weighed like stone upon touching it. We entered Albuquerque city limit in the early afternoon and found ourselves a great little hostel named Motel 66, it was a crazy place with all kinds of old bizarre stuff around. There was and old guy managing the hostel that was constantly piss drunk, but very helpful and talkative. He informed us that there was a country music festival that same afternoon/night, so we got ready in a hurry and went and saw what was going on downtown. It was fun to see the entire or at least a great part of the town had gathered for this yearly event. We had a few beers listened to some cool country music and laughed at some people before we decided to get some dinner. Upon recommendation of our friendly host we went to a local Mexican resstaurant down the street. The food was excellent and ther service very friendly. While we where eating a crazy thunderstorm rolled over our part of town. It rained like a madman and stuff blew down the street like toys. Parts of the restaurants roof almost fell off. Wild! After the storm had settled about 30 minutes later and we dared go outside again, we went down to a local and very popular poolbar where we drank a few beers before we decided to go back to our room.