Blogs from Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, North America - page 11

Oh. It's you. No no, by all means please do sit down and read. You just...startled me, is all. You're looking fabulous, by the way. Me? Oh nothing, really. Still in Santa Fe, still enjoying pretty much everything here. The winter before last, when I was here working on the vampire movie, I decided that my reward for suffering through all those long, freezing nights at work was to be a summer back here in northern New Mexico. Seriously when I was thigh-deep in that river in the mountains, at 1:30 in the morning, ambient temp. 7 degrees, the full green trees and the flowers here in the backyard were exactly what ran through my mind to keep me going. So here I've been, taking my reward. It's pretty great, but I'm getting antsy to be ... read more

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 ... read more

Hoy hemos acabado nuestro tour por Nuevo Méjico y no veo la hora de volver, aunque a estas horas sigamos aqui, puesto que mañana salimos temprano para el Monument Valley. Nuestra primera parada ha sido en el pueblo de Chimayo, situado en las faldas de la Sierra de la Sangre de Cristo. Es realmente emocionante la mezcla entre desierto y montaña, así como el cielo tan impresionantemente abierto y azul del que disfrutamos gracias a la enormidad de los paisajes. Hay que ver esto antes de morir. El santuario de Chimayo es una construcción de madera y abode, en cuyo interior se encuentran objetos de culto religioso católico tan extraños como el crucifijo milagroso, el santo pocillo (agujero de tierra donde se encontró el crucifijo) o el santo niño de atocha (escultura traida de una iglesia ... read more

March 25 , Friday Santa Fe Attended Santa Fe 400 year as a capital anniversary today at the Plaza. Great mariachi music. Also the Georgia O'Keeffe museum and the New Mexico History Museum. Was disappointed with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Most of her best work must be elsewhere. Visited Palace of the Governors on the Plaza. It is also the New Mexico History Museum. It has Indians selling their stuff in front as they have for hundreds of years. Visited the San Miguel mission church. It is the oldest church (foundation and walls at least) in the U.S. Next to it is the oldest house in the U.S. Built around 1200 by the Indians as part of a pueblo. Tomorrow I will head Southeast to Santa Rosa at 4600 ft. This 7200 ft altitude is tuff ... read more

I woke up in Santa Fe, New Mexico in Justin and Mel’s house – the people we met through couchsurfers. It was around 7am and the sun was rising outside, I’d had a decent sleep and spent most of the morning online, updating blogs and checking emails etc. At around 10.30am we left their house, they had kindly let us stay there even whilst they went off to work and asked that we just lock the door behind us. Our plan was to get something to eat, meet up with Jamie from the I-house and then drive to Chaco Canyon, an ancient ruins site. By 12noon we were running late and had only just finished eating breakfast. We met up with Jamie shortly after in New Mexico, bought some memorabilia, took some photos and left Santa ... read more