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We love Sante Fe, its people and vibe and own distinctive style, and have visited many times in the past, but not for at least 10-15 years, and before opera was a thriving interest of ours. The GovernorвЂ™s Palace on the Square with Native American artists selling their wares (photo by Deb Rogers), the adobe exterior of Cafe PasqualвЂ™s (if you want breakfast there, arrive before it opens photo by Deb Rogers), and elegant dining at Geronimo (photo by author). Our son graduated from the Annapolis campus in 2018, so we just had to drive by the Santa Fe campus, attractively nestled in the surrounding foothills, to have a look. We ate at Geronimo, Cafe PasqualвЂ™s, and Tia SophiaвЂ™s, but also made it out of the historic area into the surrounding city to some less expensive specialty spots like Clafoutis for breakfast (try a bowl of coffee) and Back Road Pizza for pizza with a corn meal crust. We stayed in Chimayo Hotel de la Santa Fe, an older, mid-priced establishment that exudes southwest charm, only a block off the Square. The hotels also range in dГ©cor and price. You are bound to spot items you love and maybe even canвЂ™t live without. The Native American artists who line the front of the GovernorвЂ™s Palace each day offer authentic works in many price ranges the shops that form the rest of the Square for a couple of blocks deep also have offerings in many price ranges, with many specializing in the very high end, as in astronomical. You can spend a little or a lot, as your budget and preferences will allow. We suggest five outstanding reasons to make the trip from Washington DC to Santa Fe: the Santa Fe Opera of course, excellent Native American Museums, the Georgia OвЂ™Keefe museum, Native American jewelry and art, and the food order the reasons as you prefer. The highway heading up the Turquoise Trail, a shop in Madrid, and a church in Los Cerrillos. American southwest landscapes are spectacular. If you look past the touristy faГ§ade, the art and jewelry offerings are impressive, a pleasurable detour with interesting snack bars and restaurants, only as expensive as you make it, and the scenery along the way makes it worth it as well.

Santa fe opera movie#

Madrid is an old coal-mining town, now home to an artist enclave the movie вЂњWild HogsвЂќ was filmed there. No hurry, we had a couple of days before our first opera so, we took the detour and visited the shops in Madrid about half-way to Santa Fe. New Mexico is home to 23 Native American tribes, nations, and pueblos authentic, beautiful Native American jewelry and crafts are plentiful. My wife wanted to take the two-hour scenic trip up the Turquoise Trail (state highway 14), both for the scenery and to visit shops in several small towns along the way. I wanted to head up Interstate 25 for the one-hour trip to Santa Fe. In retrospect, it was only frustrating, not terrible, not horrible, and a price weвЂ™d readily pay again to visit SFO the flights home were on time and uneventful.ДЇrontier restaurant in Albuquerque, lots of local color and delicious, over-sized cinnamon rolls counter service, and they keep their prices modest for the UNM students across the street. We will re-visit Sandia Peak another day. Okay, we lost half a day to explore Albuquerque, but got there safely and in time to get a good nightвЂ™s sleep and have a good breakfast at Frontier restaurant at the entrance to New Mexico University before heading our rental car north to Santa Fe. But in flight, above the clouds, the fading sun shone, and fortune smiled and we arrived at our connection in Dallas three minutes before boarding began. Hopes for making our connection in Dallas withered.

We boarded the 6:30 pm flight on time and sat on the runway for an hour then we went back to the gate for more fuel because weather required that a more southernly flight plan be followed, which also meant a longer flight than originally scheduled. That was the plan, lots of time at the airport to read, catch up on email and social media, and enjoy the crab cakes at Legal Seafood. We dutifully stood in the customer service line for forty-five minutes before being rerouted to a 6:30 pm flight through Dallas.

We boarded on time and sat on the runway for an hour and a half then, we taxied back to the gate weather had closed OвЂ™Hare. That was the plan, but weather can change plans when air travel is involved. We dutifully arrived at the airport two hours early for our 8:30 am flight which was supposed to change in ChicagoвЂ™s OвЂ™Hare before arrival into Albuquerque, NM a little after noon Albuquerque is the main jumping off point for Santa Fe and worth some time there on its own. Maybe itвЂ™s best first to deal with our really terrible, horrible, bad day вЂ“ getting there.