On Xmas afternoon, we left on a long drive from Minneapolis to
Santa Fe, New Mexico, about 1300 miles each way. The weather looked like it might cooperate. It didn't.
We still had a great time, seeing a big chunk of the U.S., often behind a wall of blowing snow.
Santa Fe is one of my favorite places, and unique in the U.S. It's a cross roads place, with influences from many different cultures. The Pueblo Indians, the Spanish via Mexico, were both there in around 1550, fighting for space. Trading there by horse drawn wagons overland from Missouri was
well established in around 1840, before the Pony Express.
Home again. Here are a
few pictures.
The art is on Canyon Road, which must have 40 galleries. Some of the snow landscapes are on the way to Taos, NM and back. The spectacular pueblo scenes are of the Taos Pueblo. The less spectacular and more primitive photos are of the San Ildefanso pueblo. The doors and most other adobes are Santa Fe.
Happy New Year.
