On our July trip to New Mexico, we went to Santa Fe twice – once on the Saturday after we arrived, and then on July 4th. I’ll work backwards, and start with the latter. And then next time offer some general Santa Fe thoughts. Garnered from my all of seven hours spent in the city, [...]
El Santuario de Chimayo
July 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
They call it the “Lourdes of America.” Here’s why: El Santuario (The Shrine) was built between l8l4 and l8l6. The “miraculous” crucifix of Our Lord of Esquipulas was found around l8l0. There is no written testimony concerning the apparition of Our Lord in the Chimayo area. What we have is tradition passed from [...]
Roadside Attractions!
July 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Never having been to New Mexico before (in recoverable memory, that is), I didn’t have a good sense of distance. In that, I thought everything – I mean everything would be hours apart, and we’d be very limited in how much we could do in a single day. Well, as per usual, my expectations were confounded. [...]
The Rio Grande – high and low
July 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This is partly a post about the limits of GPS. I don’t have a separate GPS unit. I use my phone – which is a Droid, so the app is GoogleMaps. I also don’t use to navigate, turn by turn – I find that annoying and dangerous. I mostly use it to, well, map out [...]
La Lomita
July 9, 2012 by 1 Comment
Why not just stay in a hotel? I get that sometimes. I’ve talked about “why” before. And we do stay in hotels – on this trip to New Mexico, the last two nights were in a Residence Inn in Albuquerque, and there’s no question it was the right decision – close to the airport for [...]
Tsankawi
July 4, 2012 by 3 Comments
More Puebla, they cried! More hiking, cliffs and ladders! Check. As I noted yesterday, one of the visitors’ areas of Bandelier National Memorial is located at some distance from the primary, well known spot with the towering Ladders of Terror (to which Michael actually asked to return today. No.). It’s about 11 miles from that [...]
Bandelier
July 3, 2012 by 4 Comments
Got started a little later than I wanted today. But what else is new? Bandelier was the goal today – and it was met. Bandelier – named after the archaeologist who brought the site’s importance to light – was a place of settlement for Anceint Pueblo peoples up until the 16th century. What the visitor [...]
Something New…Mexico
July 2, 2012 by 1 Comment
I had intended to blog a lot last night and catch up on the trip so far…but I got a bit tired, and went to sleep with the light on! A couple of weeks ago, I started casting about for a trip…where to go..where to go…and realized that northern New Mexico is someplace I’d never [...]
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