Old Santa Fe Trail

Song - Along the Navajo Trail by Roy Rogers

Friday - April 11

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Slept in this morning and then ran some errands including picking up an extra duffel bag at REI for our trip home.  Went back to Pantry Rio for lunch and sat outside enjoying our delicious food and beautiful weather. It’s 77 here today but you still get a bit of cool breeze.  This afternoon we planned tomorrow’s journey up to Taos. There are two cliff dwelling sites we want to see and I have two chapels along the way. Usually I do most of the planning at home but this was a bit of a spontaneous trip so other than hotel reservations not much else was planned. 

Tonight we have 8:30 reservations back at Cafe Pasquel’s for dinner. In the afternoon we took a drive along the Old Santa Fe Trail to the SF Botanical Gardens. It was 4:30 and they closed at 5 so we thought that would be perfect but unfortunately it was 4:31 and they don’t let anyone in after 4:30. Ugh.

 So we drove around the outskirts of town and headed to the Canyon Galleries. Not that I need to purchase anything but it was nice to window shop. Then we headed back to our hotel for a glass of wine in the Bistro and out for dinner. 

Our reservation was at 8:30 and about 7pm we decided that was going to be a little too late for us. 

So I found us a restaurant, Luminaries next to the Loretto Chapel.  It was very quiet with only 4 other couples dining there. Great waiter & good food but 3 of the 4 couples around us were arguing and one of those were breaking up. The woman couldn’t stop sobbing and saying how important he was to her. Another were arguing about not having healthy boundaries and the 3rd couple were just plain unhappy. So….Mr. B and I had a great meal but the atmosphere could have been better. I told Mr. B that “We gotta get outta this place, if it’s the last thing we ever do”!

We had a beautiful walk home with an almost full moon. 

And Mr. B matched our hotel door!