Matt's New Mexico (Formerly Airstream) Adventure
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It’s great to be home. We really missed the dog and we’re thrilled to see her. TG dinner was very nice. We ate at a place on the side of a large mesa called Sunset Grille. I would have taken more photos but it was crazy busy and the service was pretty inattentive. All I got was this…
Here are some internet shots for reference…
We stopped in Colorado on the way back for some “souvenirs”. Took advantage of that Black Friday action and supported a small business!
There aren’t really Xmas tree places here so people just go out into the National Forests and cut one down. We’ll do that next weekend.
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We visited Santa Fe on Xmas eve with my father in law. The Loretto Chapel has this spiral staircase that’s famous because the church needed a staircase to get up to the choir balcony but because the area was so tight they couldn’t figure it out. This mysterious carpenter showed up (Jesus?), built a cray awesome staircase and bounced without accepting payment. No one really understands how the staircase is structurally supported. It was on Unsolved Mysteries.
We also checked out the history museum and I got this pic of Billy the Kid’s spurs…
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The state’s mask mandate ended abruptly this week. Like out of nowhere the governor just said “Effective immediately…”.
I’m down as I’m ready to live with Covid now instead of living in spite of it. The museum today was kind of surreal. My stock response to making eye contact with strangers is a smile, and it’s been so long since anyone has actually seen it.
