April 26 and 27 Santa Fe NM

A short drive from Las Vegas NM to Santa Fe. Stopped on the way at Pecos National Historical Park, the ruins of a pueblo and a mission church. The pueblo was occupied for 600 years until other Indians and white settlers crowded out their farm land in the early 19th century. Very interesting walk with good interpretative information. If you want to build someting that lasts a very long time, use stone, not adobe.

Overnight 35 degrees, but warmed up in the morning. On Tuesday we visited the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, with a current exhibition of paintings by a Navajo man whose name I should have written down- wonderful. Their permanent exhibition is a collection of silver and turquoise jewelry from the last 150 years. And we made a somewhat crazy purchase of a very nice Navajo basket inspired by the legend of the Coyote Woman.

Tuesday evening we took our step-granddaughter E to dinner. It was great to get to know her better; a charming young lady. And a good mexican dinner, too.