Moving day. Taos was lovely but today we needed to move on to Santa Fe to another airbnb type house but this time I’d had a really bad experience with the owner/manager when I booked and I was dreading more weird experiences with them.
Anyway we set off early because we wanted to go via Chimaya which sounds really interesting, another indigenous adobe village where they specialize in rug making. We had booked into the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum at 1pm and had to be at our accommodation to check bet 3 and 4. But, you couldn’t bet more money on it, we got lost…again and completely missed the village. Our navigation systems keep conking out at crucial moments. So we kept on going and were in Santa Fe way ahead of schedule. I was driving so of course the navigator was to blame (and she was!!).
A word about driving in America. four cars are pulled up at a 4-way intersection. Nobody moves, so of course I say fuck it and I go, turning left (i.e. right turn for us). So I say to Norjie, “who should have given way there?”. She said she didn’t know, it was just intuitive !! WHAT!! She said she thought it was the first one who got to the intersection goes. I say that can’t be, what if there is a collision and both drivers say they got to the intersection first. So she looks it up. It’s true, the first one to get to the intersection! Then the one going straight ahead ( I was turning!). But the moral of the story is that they are all so hesitant that no-one goes. They’d all be dead in Australia in a flash.
We got to Santa Fe, went to the Tourist Centre then drove into town. It’s again an absolutely gorgeous city and, again, everything is adobe, every building. It’s a very hard city to park in but we found a park, walked to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and enjoyed a couple of hours there., learning about her and her life and her art.
Then lunch at a Mexican Restaurant (I’m already getting sick of Mexican food), then back in the car and it was time to go to our accommodation. The highly detailed and confusing instructions were difficult to follow and we just pulled up when this figure appeared from between the tree to tell us we were parking in the wrong place and hadn’t we read the instructions and everyone else understood them!! It was Kris, who it turns out is a female (I thought it must be a male because a female wouldn’t be so rude). My heart sank. But she eventually left!
We entered the house and it is unbelievable. It’s like a museum, cluttered with artifacts from head to toe. Much of it is religious memorabilia so I am looked over by Jesus and The Virgin at all points. It is stiff and uncomfortable albeit a gorgeous adobe home. We have been inundated be txts from Kris since we arrived. There is a house manual that you have to read and then had to txt her to confirm you have read them. We are completely sure there are nannycams in the statues of Jesus and we are being watched. Actually that isn’t such a joke.
Having had a late lunch we’ll skip dinner tonight. Norjie is hooked on Dark Winds which she’s watching on my PLex. Ham I think there are only 2 series on Plex, can you download the third??
Tomorrow I think we’ll browse around Santa Fe and try and get a handle on another fabulous town.