Even the road-trip-lovingest dog can get a little road weary and be ready to settle down for a while. So it's a good thing that today my Peeps are taking me to Santa Fe.
Sunday started off in Amarillo. I went on a little horseback ride before we all got into the cars:
And not long after we started driving, we all got out to say goodbye to Texas, but more importantly, to say hello to New Mexico!
We stopped for lunch at a place call Clines Corner in NM, even though they didn't spell the name like Dad thought they should.
Most significant for us, this was where we finally pulled off of I-40, our steadfast companion for the last 1700 miles or so. It's a great road and let us see so much of this huge and beautiful land as we moved across it. Thanks, I-40!
And as we got further into New Mexico, the skies got more blue, the landscape less barren, and the terrain more interesting. That is, less and less like the Texas panhandle!
As we got closer and closer to Santa Fe, the Kick-ass Song of the Day Competition heated up. Early in the day's drive, the leading contender was "Our House," from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their 1970 album Déjà Vu. I had to veto it, however, because they kept singing about two cats in the yard, as if that was a good thing (definitely not!). But then we heard "Almost Cut My Hair" from the same album; Dad's favorite line is "I feel like letting my Freak Flag fly", which sounded like a good theme for our week in general and especially for Memorial Day, what with all the bikers on the road and Rolling Thunder taking place in Washington DC.
But just as we were pulling into the city of Santa Fe, a dark-horse song sneaked up and stole the crown. "Ridgetop", from Jesse Colin Young's live On the Road album, is a long jazzy love song to living up in the mountains. It took us all the way from the center of Santa Fe:
... up to our new place in the mountains:
So here we are in Santa Fe, one week older and 2000+ miles more driven. As Road Trips go, this was indeed excellent, at times sublime.
We'll be staying a couple of days with our good friends Jack & Karen C. across the valley, but first we had to take a quick peek into the new digs:
Then, my Peeps decided to make it all official by putting in the change of address form for yours truly. Off with the Old; in with the New! They're big on ceremony, you know:
In a couple of days, once my Peep's stuff is in and a little more unpacked, we'll be back with you. And remember, the best things in life are furry!
Daisy Jones-Klein, Terrier of the West
