Santa Fe

We were very excited about our chance to spend 10 days in the Santa Fe area.  We started out our stay with a trip to the Bandelier National Monument.  This is the home of a Pueblo tribe dating back 11,000 years.  We had planned for it to be cold for our hikes, but it ended up being hot and we spent the day wishing for shorts and t-shirts.  The area is fantastic and I highly recommend it to anyone who visits santa fe.  We then went to Taos to see the ski hill and resort town.  Both of the areas were not what we expected.  It was 50+ degrees when we got the lower lodge at Taos Ski Valley and there was very little snow at the parking area and lodge at 9K feet.  The snow and skiing looked marginal and the town of Taos has less resort and more poverty than we expected.  I'm not sure we would come back to ski/board.  However, we stayed at a cool hotel for the night that has been open since 1936 and the food was great, even if we were the only people at the restaurant for the entire night.

After we got back to SF, we went on an amazing food tour with a new and great friend Carlos.  He took us to 4 different and amazing restaurants in the old town area.  He has a great knowledge of the area, buildings, people and the food scene.  We highly recommend going on one of his tours.

https://foodtournewmexico.com/

We spent a day enjoying the old town area of Santa Fe and visited the Basilica and the Lorreto Chapel.  What an amazing staircase.  It is one of the powerful and moving places we have visited.

As we got towards the end of our stay in SF, we went out to see the pueblos and national park at Pecos and visited a very psychedelic art display at Meow Wolf.

Santa Fe is on our list to re-visit when the temperature is better and there is no wind.  Did we mention the wind????  It turns out the late winter and early spring are the windy season in ABQ and Santa Fe.  We are ready to get back to Phoenix to Taylor and the warm weather.