Madrid & Cerrillos, NM

On Friday, May 29, 2009, our group piled into our rented van and trekked off to Madrid, NM.  This is an artist colony in the mountains southeast of Santa Fe about 20 miles.  No signal lights or stop signs in this little town.

IMG_2271A 2 lane highway goes through the middle of town and each side is lined with shops, restaurants, one bar, a mine museum and homes.  This is the town where Wild Hogs with John Travolta was shot and it looks the same after that event as it did before.

Santa Fe, New Mexico

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A few months ago a couple that has been life long friends with Gene and that I meet and joined in this friendship a few years ago asked us to meet them in Santa Fe for a few days.  They were meeting his sister and her husband here for several days.  We have never traveled with any of these people before and hardly know our friends relatives but we said it sounded like fun, I love Santa Fe and I thought I really needed a few days away.

We have had so much fun.  When we arrived on Tuesday evening we picked them up and went to Tomasita’s for our first New Mexican meal of the trip and a planning session.