In search of Santa Fe's proclaimed "2nd largest art market in the United States" we headed to Canyon Road, but got lost in the narrow Santa Fe roads that wind through Pueblo style houses and fences that look like they are made out of loose branches strung together with rope. We some how eventually popped out of our delightful detour and found our intended destination. There were so many galleries we couldn't possibly hit them all. We saw everything from tricked out glass kaleidoscopes, paper mache paintings, to massive wire sculpture people. We ate lunch at an adorable tapas bar- yummy! To try to fit in all in one day, we headed to the Plaza to see the Native American hand-crafted jewelry and the New Mexican Museum of Art.
Although we could have spent all day roaming around the friendly streets of Santa Fe, we had to continue our journey. We booked it to Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs to make it before the mud bath closed at sundown. For the low price of $15, you can soak your body in the four pools of natural mineral water known for their healing effects- and we did just that.
Afterwords we dragged our loose muscles and overheated faces to the Ojo Caliente Restaurant for our potentially last healthy meal for a while as we looked southward.
To keep our clean track record of our no hotel track record, we planned on staying at Annika's mom's newly purchased and unfurnished house in Taos, about an hour from the springs. Little did we know what was in store for us. To begin, we encountered four elk on the road, they posed for some glamor shots (see below) and headed on their merry way. Then our seemingly unhazardous highway suddenly turned into a dirt road that suddenly turned into a massive gorge. No knowing what else to do, we continued down the narrow switchback dirt road, now pitch black. We eventually crossed the bottom at a small bridge to find that the road was a dead end. With minor panic, we managed to locate a paved road which directed us to a freeway on the other side. Our struggles weren't entirely over, as we had difficulty finding Annika's of the map house and had to be rescued by Joe the maintenance man. We shared their one piece of furniture, an over-sized couch and snoozed the night away.
Elk! check out their cute fuzzy bums
I'm just goinng to continue leaving comments for the time that I can haha
ReplyDelete"rescued by Joe the maintenance man. We shared their one piece of furniture, an over-sized couch and snoozed the night away." I was just waiting for such a sentence to be written hahaha
We leave tomorrow for our trip, I hope we can meet soon!!!