Blogs from New Mexico, United States, North America - page 120

Jim and I have done the museums, shops and gallaries in Santa Fe. Jim did ride his bike today and we will do some back street riding, but mostly we are walking everywhere around town. Fortunately our casita is not far from the Plaza. This is not a good biking town due to narrow, busy streets. The mountains are beautiful and varied. Our neighbors in the casita next to ours were John and Martha Beechler from Michigan. We did become friends, having dinner and hiking with them last week. We went to Bandelier National Monument the ancestral village and cliff dwellings of the pueblo indians still in this area. Alas, John and Martha went home. We like Santa Fe, but it is time to get out of town! This week we continue to hike and travel ... read more

October 25, Monday This another driving day. We drove from Taos to Santa Fe to Pecos. We wanted to do a section of the Santa Fe Trail, so we were sort of backtracking here. We spent the night in Las Vegas, (not Nevada, Las Vegas) New Mexico. We found a nice little Spanish restaurant, got to a movie and that was it for the day. October 26, Tuesday New Mexico On the road again to Fort Union, then we spent the night in Raton, an old coal town that has sort of gone down the tubes. We rented a video at the Wal-Mart, got our pictures developed, picked up some more supplies. We even found a Carnegie Mellon Library! October 27, Wednesday Capulin Volcano, NM Drove a “Bob road” - all day. The first stop was ... read more

After getting up at Bandolier Campground, we went up to the Visitor’s Center and decided to take a little bit of a hike out to the cliff dwelling and the kivas. Actually, we were getting a little tired of cliff dwellings and kivas, but this particular place was quite interesting and worth the extra effort. We climbed up ladders to see the homes and the petroglyphics and the kivas. The rock is known as swiss cheese because of the holes, and the paths and trails were very well maintained, so it wasn’t a very difficult hike. It was quite interesting and also a little bit different. On we go to Santa Fe. Continuing, Thursday, October 21, we got to the Visitor’s Center at Santa Fe and located an RV campground right on Cerrillos Boulevard, parked ... read more

Is it just me, or are the sunrises bigger in New Mexico?... read more

It is somewhere in Arizona. I think. Could be New Mexico. In the middle of the desert. A few worn down houses on the slope of a hill. No people are to be seen anywhere. It's a little depressing. Why would people choose to live here? But then again, the people residing are probably thinking "why would people care to live in a city?"... The town is small, very very small, and very very remotely located. I wonder if it's big enough to have a name. But I guess it does, since the Greyhound bus stops there. It would be a bit strange to have a bus stop "you know, there in the desert, by those houses". The place reminds me very much of the little town in the movie ”Tremors”. If this town was attacked ... read more