I’m safely in Socorro, New Mexico where I landed a little under three hours ago. At the front desk they said that I could use the dataports for free if there were a local dialup number, otherwise I would have to get a phone card. OK. I hooked up the phone/modem and found that NetZero [...]

I’ll be setting out in the early afternoon (given up on this morning ;-) Because of the Weather coming in from the east, I’m (probably) going to take a short day and go to Socorro tonight, and see what the weather forecast is tomorrow morning. If it’s bad, I can cut south and take 70 [...]

We parked a little outside the main area, which means it was a nice little walk alongside a stream to get to the central town, which is all southwestern architecture. (*) We went past the Loretto Chapel (*), which wanted $2.50 to see the miraculous stair, so we decided to wait. I just calculated how [...]

Here’s a selection of artwork and interesting/powerful stuff in Santa Fe. The Native American woman is the first to be recognised/promoted to saint. I was relying on the plaque, but the photo isn’t clear enough so I’ll have to do some homework.

Dialup is excrutiatingly slow this morning…I think it’s a conspiracy to get me to get myself back on the road and go home :: grin ::

We sent off in the late morning and took highway 14, which is the Turquoise Trail, as I understand it where the turquoise is all gathered. Later I discovered that I had my camera set to the smallest resolution, which means that some very good photographs are essentially useless for anything other than online display [...]

As Oakwoman and I have spent more time together, we seem to be thinking the exact same thing at the exact same time. You know when you both blurt the same thing and then go, “Whoah!” Like that. Examples: yesterday we: Went to the local flavour books in the bookshop with the same intention: to [...]

Just a quick note to say I’m back from a long day in Santa Fe and surrounding area. Got incredibly high yet again – 10,330′ this time. Seem to be psychically connected to Oakwoman. ;-) Will try to remember to explain that one later. ;-)

I’m having a geeky moment in Santa Fe; what a lovely, lovely city! Most everything here is way out of my league, but there’s plenty of free eye candy to be had in terms of art galleries and places to wander through. More later…I’m just touching base from a wireless connection, because it’s what I [...]