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Road Trip 🇺🇸 🚗
Drove from Santa Fe to Sedona, Arizona today. It didn’t look that far on the map. It was that far. But tbh, I cannot move my legs today, so not complaining about sitting on my arse for 7 hours. I’m calling it a recovery day. By complete accident, we were driving past Albuquerque this morning…
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Bandelier National Park / Los Alamos, New Mexico 🇺🇸 🥾
To summarize the day: Everything hurts and I’m dying. Hiked down a steep-ass canyon into Bandelier National Park this morning. Not a soul on the trail with us until we got down to the canyon floor where the monument(s) are. Was very peaceful. Parts of the trail were pretty jaunty. It’s a good thing I’m…
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Chimayo/Abiquiu, New Mexico 🇺🇸 🎨
Update: still allergic to NM. Pretty sure I ID’d the culprit: rubber rabbitbrush. We shall call it yellow sneeze-weed. Drove north to the town of Chimayo today to see the Catholic pilgrimage site of El Santuario de Chimayo. They receive around 300,000 visitors per year. The church has a special room with a hole in…
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Santa Fe, New Mexico 🇺🇸 🌶️
I’m on a quest to finish visiting all 50 states. Might be silly, but I got it in my head it’s something I need to accomplish. So, here we are in New Mexico. Staying in a super cute historic adobo home, built sometime around 1912. Has walls that are an honest foot thick. Very quiet.…
The Flask Half Full
Because the best stories rarely make it into the brochure.