Santa Fe is a great little Town I wouldn't mind living here (if it was warmer in the winter). There is so much to do and see in the area.
Old Town is full of little places to shop
All the turquoise and Indian jewelry you could want.
Great Sculptures
At the end of the Old Santa Fe Trail stands the Loretto Chapel.
Inside the Gothic structure is the staircase referred to as miraculous, inexplicable, marvelous and is sometimes called St. Joseph’s Staircase. The stairway confounds architects, engineers and master craftsmen. It makes over two complete 360-degree turns, stands 20’ tall and has no center support. It rests solely on its base and against the choir loft. The risers of the 33 steps are all of the same height. Made of an apparently extinct wood species, it was constructed with only square wooden pegs without glue or nails. It was built sometime between 1877 and 1881
The handrails were added at the request of the Nuns some 10 years after it was built.
The oldest Church in the US
And the oldest house - dates back to the Analco Indians of 1200's then Spanish colonization in 1607. They just don't build them like they used to.
Sadly our journey thru Santa Fe comes to an end
From here a quick tour thru Taos - not a whole lot of interest - probably better during Ski Season. Drove the "Enchanted Loop" for 68 miles but again not very enchanting this time of year. Had we had it to do over I would have visited the Taos Pueblo - a Pueblo Indian village inhabited continuously for over 1,000 years.
San Francisco de Asisi Church built in 1850. There is a painting of Christ which at night glows and shows the crucifix at night. When the lights go out. The life-size image of Jesus standing on the shore of the Sea of Galilee fades to a shadow as the wispy white clouds in pale blue sky and green water begin to glow around Him, as if all were bathed in moonlight. Soon the silhouette of Jesus grows three-dimensional and appears more like a dark statue than flat image. His robes seem to billow in a breeze. Over his left shoulder the shadow of a cross is distinct to most. Some can see a halo over his head and the bow of a small fishing boat . 
A cool solar panel at the visitor's center
And then there was the Earthship Biotecture Headquarters
A community built with natrual and recycled materials, thermal/solar heating and cooling, water by harvesting, cointained sewage treatment and Solar and Wind Electricity
It is the worlld's largest self-sufficient residenial development.
The Euro Earthship 3 BR/2BA $100/Yr utility bill for sale at $400,000
Meanwhile we keep on Trek'n
Later,
Melissa and Gary
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