Day 4: Recuperating in Santa Fe

Our new friend, Robert, started us off with a great breakfast this morning at the Turquoise Bear. We spent the day touring around downtown Santa Fe, and quickly discovered why many people call this the greatest city in America. In fact, you don't feel like you're in a city at all.

I took some pictures downtown this morning and afternoon in the downtown area, but I later realized I didn't have the memory card in the camera. I'll get some Santa Fe pictures on here tommorrow. Star can tell you more about the history of this Bed and Breakfast we found on the internet. It's fascinating stuff, especially for those English major types :-)

Once again, the people here in Santa Fe are wonderful. There is always somebody willing to offer advice and assistance. The food is out of this world (Thanks, Guadelupe Cafe). The weather is cool at night, warm in the days, and extremely dry. In other words, it's perfect.

Speaking of weather, it just occurred to me today that we have not encountered any rain since leaving South Carolina Monday afternoon. It's hard to fathom driving over 1,500+ miles across country and not seeing a drop of rain.

Tomorrow, we head out for Southwestern Colorado and the Mesa Verde area. We are then headed into Eastern Utah and the Canyonlands/Arches National Parks territory...Ben

I think I'm in charge of the inn history. It's one of the oldest buildings in San Antonio, built in the 1830's. It became famous in the early 20th century because Witter Bynner settled here. Isn't that a great name? It's not been immemorial, however, except maybe to New Mexicans. Apparently, he retired from literary circles and established a bit of a literary colony here. He became fast friends with D. H. and Frieda Lawrence, as well as a notorious collection of liberal intellectuals including Ansel Adams, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Edna Millay. In fact, we're staying in the Edna Millay room. Our host claims that they have parties fairly regularly, especially late at night. If you're not sleeping soundly, you'll hear them. Hmm. I seem to have missed that.

Anyway, Ben's putting in some pictures of the place. We're leaving tomorrow for parts northwest. Yay!

Ben just reminded me that neither of us told about our major excursion of the day, to the Georgia O'Keeffe museum. It had a number of exceptional pieces: lots of the flower ones, a number of early nudes, and a good many landscapes. Ben and I probably offended people by snickering, but I'm quite convinced that Georgia expected everyone to see her playful, sexual nature in every piece she created...Star