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Truckzter, how's the biking? ABQ seems so ideal for it - well compared to the East coast and it's crazy traffic, crumbling infrastructure, freezing cold winters and humid summers.
Location: THEN: Paso Robles, Ca * NOW: Albuquerque, NM
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Well, granted, 1) I never biked before I moved here because I commuted to school, and 2) the weather here is/will be colder than that in California, but ...
I bike about 6+ miles to campus round trip, and it's not too bad. There aren't a lot of bike lanes over in my section of town, so I just ride through the residential areas and on the street with traffic. Generally, biking with vehicles hasn't been a problem .. I haven't been hit yet. There is also a really long bike path around the city ... and more bike lanes are being put in. Heck, there is a guy at Performance Bikes who bikes 17 miles to work. So there are some serious bikers!
There are lots of people who mountain bike, too, but I'm not really into that.
This sounds so good. Sometimes when I ride my bike to work (also 6 miles) my coworkers faint in disbelief that I could travel such a vast distance without four wheels!
However I do drive most days, unfortunately, because Baltimore is most definitely a car city - one of the reasons I'm preparing to exit stage West!
I live in Rio Rancho and stay awake past 8:30. Usually stay awake past midnight too.
RR was originally set up to be a retirement community, then people from the city decided they wanted a piece of the peace and quiet and moved out here. Its a new city.
Perhaps some of the bars in downtown ABQ might suit your needs better.
Rio Rancho was actually founded as a get away community, it was founded based on people from New York with a area of cheap lots known as the Rio Rancho Estates, or as they like to say them new yorkers founded that place que no?! the area became established in 1981 after the area hit about 10,000 people, this is also because of the Intel corporation. It wasnt really a retirement community, it was set up to be a large subdivision of albuquerque to create a large connecting metro area, and they were right it was a success, the city was the fastest growing small city in america for about 10 years in a row, and its probably going to be one of them suburban cities..
The City of Vision or The City of scattered unplanned messy sprawl?!
or aka Desert Sprawl Country.. idk if you have seen an aerial view of the city but roads were made as apart of the Rio Rancho Estates in the early 50's-60's.
What they didnt know was that later in the future Rio Rancho could pass albuquerque by 2060.
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There is also a really long bike path around the city ... and more bike lanes are being put in. Heck, there is a guy at Performance Bikes who bikes 17 miles to work. So there are some serious bikers!
