After packing up (we're going to have to get used to that over the next 10 days!) we hit the road and drove the Turquoise Trail up to Santa Fe. It was a lovely drive up through the high plains desert, through little towns such as Golden and Madrid (Maa-drid - as featured in the Road Hogs movie).
Santa Fe is lovely. If anything even lovelier than Albuquerque in a kind of small town kind of way. Not that its a small town, far from it - its the State capital - but the old centre has a real small town feel. We had a lovely afternoon wandering round the plaza and in and out of the shops. We got a real bargain in one of the posh shops selling Native American pottery. After a bit of hard bargaining we got a whacking 75% off 3 items. Obviously there was some part of being marked up to mark down, but still I think we got a bargain.
We went to Loretto Chapel to marvel at the spiral staircase. Legend has it that the Sisters needed a staircase built to the choir loft, but no means of building it, so they prayed for help. A mysterious stranger turned up and built them (free of charge) a spiral staircase which has no central post, no visible means of support and which goes through two 360 degree turns. Certainly an engineering miracle, if not a religious one!
Had a lovely night supping margaritas and had dinner in The Shed which did great Mexican food.
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