I worked in ABQ a total mass of time over the past few years of 12 months, so I'm pretty familiar myself. Never got a chance to wheel there since I never had the time or the vehicle to do so. Don't care for the town so much, since I've had some unsavory experiences there.(chalk silhouette outside one of my job sites on the SW side) But it has my favorite Chinese restaurant out of all of the cities I have traveled to in recent years (Carlisle & Canderlaria). Plus countless hours and dollars spent at Doc & Eddy's. And TD's but that's another story.

I do agree the Sandias mountains are a site to see. Especially when snow dusted during the fall months while still wearing short sleeves down by the river. (Not in a van). And the views at night in Rio Rancho overlooking the city are awesome. I've taken the tram up the west face of the Sandias, and driven up the east, and helped a heep guy get his crappy stock weber carb working right to get down the east side. If there weren't so may houses on the west side there would be some awesome opportunities to get into some tricky situations. I only wish I could get some more time outside of work to explore more.

I think for live volcanos we may have to ship our rigs to Hawaii. Come to think of it, that wouldn't suck at ALL..