Brian, Grants was the town 60 miles before you reached Gallup (basically the only place other than Gallup with multiple lodging choices between Albq. and the Az line). Unfortunately for tourists (good for truckers I suppose since some scenery can make roads crooked) I 40 is routed through the most boring scenery in TX, N.M. and AZ. There is lots of cool stuff to the north and south of the I.(mostly south of it in TX)