ROFL!!! Come ride with me hun - I live in the foothills and work in the valley. Once you leave the center of Albuquerque going east or west your choices are: to climb the mountains or to climb the mountains! There were days I HATED going home at night coz I have to climb back up those nasty mountains I so happily flew down that morning, until I found this forum and learned that those mountains really are my friends! (OK...no they're not but I've chosen to be in a state of de-nile!) They really aren't so bad once you get used to their little quirks, pretty soon you won't even think about it, it'll just be what you have to do to get wherever it is you're going!