Much as I would like to continue to romanticize about the Obama administration the fact is George Walker Bush is still the President, for a few more months and I doubt there is even a short list for the new Attorney General or Secretary of State. So in the meantime I went for a ride, you can see the high resolution route we took here, or below.
I was, most of the time, able to keep up with Laurie and Thi, but that was no easy task. Still I believe I am improving. (It probably helps that I made sure to stop eating three hours before the ride and consume lots of Endurox as the ride progressed. Just keep taking steady sips at every red light, still having read the ingredients on Endurox, I am thinking I ought to change my energy powder.) As Dan did not come with there are no images from the ride.
Speaking of rides, below is a summary of events surround El Paso and the Trip to Santa Fe.
The drive to El Paso, on Sunday October 27 was largely uneventful, but it was long. The road at times was straight for miles and miles. A rope for steering and cruse control is really all that is needed most of the time out here.
Lesley printed something from Wikipedia or Wikitravel that said downtown El Paso was a great place to go for a walk. What a lie, downtown El Paso was shuttered and depressed, what people there were looked like they were ready to call it quits with life or a life of non-violence. We hightailed out of downtown and got barbecue ribs at a wonderful little restaurant called The Rib Hut, still it seems awfully wasteful to go to Texas just for the ribs, which I would say were no better than the ribs at Sticky Lips in Rochester. (Of course if I lived in El Paso, I suspect I'd be eating at The Rib Hut very often.)
After dinner we drove through some high roads that over look the town. It is very pretty at night, lit up like a big Christmas tree, but the rental car does not corner or accelerate well so it was a little... Distressing for me as I had to drive the thing.
Monday, the 28th, as the stock market found ever new lows to sink to, we drove to Santa Fe with a stop for lunch in Albuquerque. I had a dry burrito, well a fraction of it, it was really unpleasant, I got it as takeout, sadly, or I'd have demanded a refund.
We arrived at Santa Fe (about 7000 feet up) in the later part of the afternoon. Santa Fe is a delightful if exceedingly expensive town. During the day there were many people out and about and we even walked to a supermarket where we bought enough food to make a couple dinners and lunches.
After dinner we made the mistake, I made the mistake, of deciding to go for a walk. Santa Fe is a typical American city this way, nobody walks outside at night. Americans reclaim your streets, you know you pay all these taxes to build sidewalks, and never use them, but a nice walk is a good way to burn off dinner and meet the neighbours, if they walk as well.
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