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Do You Know the Way to Santa Fe?

3/14/2016

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La-la-la-la...Okay, I know: wrong town. But if that song wasn't going through my head, it would be "It's a Small World" and we all know that's not good. But it was a small world day yesterday. In the morning, the people camped next to us (from Colorado) were packing up to leave and noticed our Iowa plates. Turns out their daughter coaches girls basketball in my hometown of Hampton. We met a woman in the first museum we were in with an Ankeny jacket on--she and her friend taught with the brother-in-law of an old friend of mine. Then at lunch, two women next to us heard us mention Iowa--one is from Minnesota and has grandparents in West Bend. And our bus driver, although mostly from New Mexico and California, spent a couple of high school years in Cedar Rapids and went to Linn-Mar.

So we are in a very nice campground, Trailer Village, in Santa Fe. It's on a busy street but an adobe wall around the campground keeps the street noise down. Decent showers (although only one hook!), laundry, community building and pool. We arrived Saturday, and after enduring a little snow (!), we gussied up,  went to an old restaurant on Canyon Road, and enjoyed paella for two. Yesterday we took the city bus in to the old part of town to visit the plaza and other historical sites. We first went to the Palace of the Governors, now a museum. They do a great job of presenting Santa Fe's 400 year history including the clash and blending of cultures. A stagecoach is on exhibit that delivered mail along the Santa Fe Trail.


After lunch we visited the Saint Francis of Assisi Cathedral and the Loretto Chapel. The cathedral is another beautiful combination of European elegance and Native American simplicity. One chapel is 400 years old and part of the original church. By the time we finished the Loretto Chapel, we decided it might take us the rest of the afternoon to find our way back to the campground via the bus system, but we made it without getting lost once!
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