Blogs from New Mexico, United States, North America - page 3

We decided to take it easy this morning and leisurely got ready for the day. We skipped breakfast at the hotel and instead decided to have an earlier lunch. This turned out to be a good thing, because Café Pasquals is quite popular and our wait time was an hour. We used this time to do some shopping. Went to a great chile store next door and bought three different types of red chile. Then we walked around looking for pottery, no luck yet. When our table was ready, we got a text and we headed to the restaurant. The wait now was an hour and a half, when we left it was up to 2 hours. It was well worth the wait. The place is very small and there was no personal space, almost sitting ... read more

Every trip we hit that point were sleep becomes more important than breakfast. Today was that day. Just needed the extra 45 minutes of lying-in bed with Tarragon. It also turned out to be a good thing once we got closer to lunch. We started our date at the Georgia O’Keefe Museum. We had allotted 2 hours for this, but really only needed one. It was smaller than we anticipated. We were however very fortunate to be planers because it was timed entry and you needed to book in advance, which we of course did. The line of walk ins was quite long and only about 20 of them managed to gain entrance, the museum was sold out for the rest of the day. The museum was very interesting basically spanned here entire career from New ... read more

Slept in even a bit more than yesterday, breakfast at 9:30 at the hotel then off for a day in the Mountains. We covered a lot of ground today, 175 miles in the car, and 3 miles on foot. The Jémez Mountain Trail. The Jémez mountain trail is just northwest of Santa Fe. It is a circular route that takes you through the Bandelier National Monument, Caldera National Preserve, the Jémez National Forest and Jémez Indian Reservation. It was a very diverse drive with dramatic changes in both landscape and weather. The day started with clear skies and as we rose higher in elevation turned to snow. The first stop was White Rock Overlook. This offered a dramatic view of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the Rio Grande River. From there it was on to ... read more

We all enjoyed a little extra sleep this morning, even Tarragon waited until 6:30 to jump on the bed for attention. Snoozed until 7 then got up did some pre-packing and showering. Had breakfast in Mas Tapas y Vino because it was just convenient since we needed to check out by 11. Breakfast put the restaurant back on track for me. Much better than last night and equally as good as the first night. Jerry had breakfast tacos, scrambled eggs, bacon, Manchego and cheddar cheese on a crips corn tortilla, there were three in all, served with green chili sauce and patatas bravas. I had the New Mexico Breakfast bowl; it was quite large. Patatas Bravas with house made sausage, which was very tasty, Cheddar-Jack Cheese two eggs over easy and green chili sauce. Both were ... read more

Breakfast, family time, Anniversary dinner. That was the day. Other than the interruption from work that stressed me out for most of the day, we had a good day. We slept in a little then had breakfast at Cecilia’s famous for their red chili sauce. We walked to breakfast in the brisk morning air, actually wore my new winter coat as it was 27 degrees. We were the only customers in the place until the very end of our breakfast. They did a huge take out/delivery business. The place is not fancy but the food is solid and very traditional New Mexican. We both had Huevos Rancheros the only difference was mine was with carne adovada and Jerry’s with shredded beef, onions and tomatoes. They were the best I have every had and the red chili ... read more