Three days in Albuquerque at the balloon fiesta and a visit to Santa Fe which is more that 7,000ft above sea level!  Then time to move on along Route 66, stopping at Gallup, New Mexico at the oldest cafe on Route 66 then into Arizona, yet another time zone change.
...standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona ...
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona - fossilised trees - so old that they have been turned to stone with lots of beautiful colours.
...where in the hotel Pierre meets another pilot!
At dawn on the launch site balloons start to inflate
...so many balloons!