New Mexico: The Land of Enchantment

Santa Fe

We literally blew into New Mexico and Santa Fe. We set up in an RV Park a few miles outside of the city and decided to explore Santa Fe the next day.

The next day when we left the Park, we wound our way through the hills surrounding Santa Fe and stopped at a couple of the museums hidden in and among all the adobe dwellings.

  

Even with the trusty GPS, we struggled to find our way to the historic old town. Once we were there we spent most of our time in and amongst the plazas, churches, shops and old adobe buildings.

 

Santa Fe is laid out according to the “Laws of the Indies”, town planning rules and ordinances which were established in 1573 by King Philip II – winding streets radiating from a busy central Plaza. Many of the streets are narrow and include small alley-ways. 

It was oh, so difficult to slow down and Santa Fe did not seem to be the place we could do that. It was still very cool and windy. Even though Albuquerque is drenched in historic Spanish influence, Native culture, Museums, and Art Galleries, we were not ready for any more city time so we skipped that leg and headed down towards Roswell and Carlsbad.