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Santa Fe, New Mexico
We had to stop a few times to take ‘Route 66’ pics and toilet breaks of course! Sometimes it’s cutting it a bit close, and as soon as we see a gas station we have to pull over and use the facilities
New Mexico
It’s the Mexico on this side of the border, and as you would imagine it’s full of Mexicans (Indians as well)… The little flat clay houses seem to blend in with the landscape and gives this place a very ‘natural’ feel. The town centre had some very interesting buildings and sculptures but in sharp contrast to that we found an intersection where the guys love showing off their ‘bouncy’ gangster cars! It’s so funny to see the car come bouncing past, first the front, up and down, up and down and then they switch to the back, up and down… so that it looks like the car is shaking his booty! Oh dear…it was entertaining though!
We spied out the market but didn’t really make any purchases, one never knows what meaning some ‘native’ ornaments and beads can have…I don’t want no ‘howling wolf spirit’ hanging around me! .so we play it safe
Shoppinh at Whole Foods
HEALTHY stuff for road.. and stick to real shops instead of handcrafted goods by the locals.
Oh my ‘cowboy hat and boots’, there are so many gorgeous looking leather handbags, cowboy boots and jackets here…They are all just as gorgeously expensive! Some boots going for $900! But after looking and losing interest I stumbled upon my pair…it just called me from the shop window…’come get me, I’m yours!!’, so after a fitting on session and doing the over exaggerated walk, the ‘fitting on walk’, the walk we never do in real life kind of walk, and Jason reassuring me they are very nice, I made my purchase.. There was no point trying to rush the salesman and to cover up the evidence of this silly irrational act because Jenni and Tamsin came rushing into the store as I stood with the money in my hand!! (no, don’t worry they weren’t nearly $900, not even close!) Little did we know that after a double cappuccino we would be back in the shop getting Tamsin’s dream boots aswell. I tried the discount thing for repeat business but he wasn’t having it…he instead gave us each a green tea teabag! Of all things?? A teabag?? I
obviously don’t get it…
After our spending spree we went back to the hotel and hit the gym to work off all that excitement (and caffeine). We then went to a HEALTHY supermarket and bought our breakfast and lunch for the road, tomorrow is a long stretch…630miles (1166km) from Santa Fe to Dallas.. We felt like real Mexican food and were told to go to “maria’s” restaurant, a real Mexican food joint, voted the best restaurant in Santa Fe 2010, waiting time for a table is about 1hr 30mins, good thing our hotel reserved a table for us, so we only waited 10mins to be seated and a whole lot longer for the food to come. The food was good, spicy here and there but good, beef fajita’s with guacamole and salsa, lots or tortilla chips and I had a few sips of Tamsin’s Margarita…not bad..
Back to hotel to pack up and get to bed…have to be up at 4:40am…yawn,,,,zzzzzz
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