Old friends in Santa Fe, New Mexico
After a relaxing morning, we left our little B&B and traveled about one hour to the outskirts of Santa Fe, where we visited my old friends Leah and Bruce. Leah is the mom of one of my close childhood friends, Heather, and it was great to see her again. Leah and Bruce live a bit out of Santa Fe on land which they are farming. The land is on low rolling mountains. Very beautiful new mexico landscape surrounds. Leah and Bruce are in the process of building a new house on their property, and Bruce gave us a tour of the project in process. It was fun to walk around the new house and see how they are putting it all together. Leah also gave us a short tour of their land, in which we got to pick and eat fresh (delicious) apples off one of their apple trees and say hi to their goats. We then sat down for a longer visit with Leah, Bruce, and their friend Greg, and we talked while enjoying yogurt and scrambled eggs which Leah made for us--all from the milk and eggs produced by their own goats and chickens. Very fresh and tasty! In all it was a lovely visit.
Andrew and I then went on to Albuquerque, where we stopped long enough to replace two of the tires on our car which were getting dangerously bad. This turned out to be no easy task, for we have a very rare tire size (which we didn't even know before today), and it was Sunday, so most tire stores were closed. To give you some sense of our dilemma, no Walmart, Sears, or Costco carried the kind of tires we needed. My dad came to the rescue and helped us out by looking online (from his house in Santa Cruz) for info and phone numbers for tire stores in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque areas. We were lucky to find the tires we needed at a Firestone shop, and we got there just a few minutes before they closed. Once our car was ready, we made the long (4.5 hour) drive south to Whites City, New Mexico, where we are spending the night. Whites City is just outside the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Our plan is to visit the park early in the morning and leave Segui in our motel so we can go for a walk in one of the caverns and get back to the motel in time to check out. Hopefully it will all go as planned and tomorrow we can tell you about the caverns.
Andrew and I then went on to Albuquerque, where we stopped long enough to replace two of the tires on our car which were getting dangerously bad. This turned out to be no easy task, for we have a very rare tire size (which we didn't even know before today), and it was Sunday, so most tire stores were closed. To give you some sense of our dilemma, no Walmart, Sears, or Costco carried the kind of tires we needed. My dad came to the rescue and helped us out by looking online (from his house in Santa Cruz) for info and phone numbers for tire stores in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque areas. We were lucky to find the tires we needed at a Firestone shop, and we got there just a few minutes before they closed. Once our car was ready, we made the long (4.5 hour) drive south to Whites City, New Mexico, where we are spending the night. Whites City is just outside the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Our plan is to visit the park early in the morning and leave Segui in our motel so we can go for a walk in one of the caverns and get back to the motel in time to check out. Hopefully it will all go as planned and tomorrow we can tell you about the caverns.
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Photos? Unfortunately, we never took the camera out the entire day. Got caught up in visiting and didn't think about it... sigh.
I'm surprised that we didn't use the camera ... especially because Gene Hackman is Bruce and Leah's neighbor, and I could have snapped some candid pictures of him in his yard and sold them to Hello! magazine.
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