Another morning packing up our camp into the van. After a short drive to Santa Fe, we walked around Old Town and found a great restaurant for lunch, The Shed. It's tucked back into a little plaza and has lots of very short doors and uneven floors and mismatched tables and chairs. Charming in its disarray.
Our appointment at the Georgia O'Keefe museum was not diappointing. O'Keefe's abstract art was on display, with some of the paintings never being on public display before. Our docent led us through 60 years of art, starting with early experimentation through classic O'Keefe style to later efforts to just keep painting, despite blindness and arthritis. We then went across the road to the Museum's learning center and spent 45 minutes capturing our feelings with paper and chalk pastels.
After a little more shopping (doing our best to boost the American economy) we loaded into the van to drive to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. As we got to Durango, it was clouding over and getting cooler. We went up over 2000 feet in elevation getting to our campsite and as we put our tents up in the first few moments of darkness it was getting cold and a little rainy. So we all crawled into our sleeping bags to get warm and sleep.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Day 7: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Last night on our way to the Sandia Tram, we spotted a billboard for an impressionist art exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History. We made a spot decision to skip Petroglyph State Park and go to the Museum. We spent the morning looking at 55 original paintings by Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Turner, Van Gogh, Renior, and a host of other artists. Althought not strictly associated with the Southwest, it was a great opportunity to see an exquisite private collection on display.
Then our group traveled a couple miles outside of Old Town to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. When I lived in Albuquerque 20 years ago, they had just received funds to build the new Center, so I was excited to see it. We saw exhibits about Native Southwest pottery, Spanish mission art, and a modern exhibit paying tribute to the different Pueblo tribes. We also ate a fabulous lunch that included fresh guacamole, Indian fry bread and lots of carne adovado (spicy marinaded pork).
The rest of the afternoon was filled with shopping, followed by ice cream and a ghost tour of Old Town. It was good value for money, lasting 2.5 hours, instead of 1.5 hours, and none of us was carried away, assaulted or even approached by spectres. The tour included a lot about the history of Albuquerque and the Old Town Area, too, and an excellent Black Widow spider up in the corner of a doorway.
Then our group traveled a couple miles outside of Old Town to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. When I lived in Albuquerque 20 years ago, they had just received funds to build the new Center, so I was excited to see it. We saw exhibits about Native Southwest pottery, Spanish mission art, and a modern exhibit paying tribute to the different Pueblo tribes. We also ate a fabulous lunch that included fresh guacamole, Indian fry bread and lots of carne adovado (spicy marinaded pork).
The rest of the afternoon was filled with shopping, followed by ice cream and a ghost tour of Old Town. It was good value for money, lasting 2.5 hours, instead of 1.5 hours, and none of us was carried away, assaulted or even approached by spectres. The tour included a lot about the history of Albuquerque and the Old Town Area, too, and an excellent Black Widow spider up in the corner of a doorway.
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