Wed Aug. 29

Another beautiful day on Route 66 today.  We stayed overnight in Santa Rosa NM last night and noticed a great Route 66 museum the night before.  We went there first this morning and met Bozo--yes, Bozo,  a large Hispanic man that had done very well running garages and customizing cars--his passion.  For a small town with not a lot in it he has managed  to operate a great museum and has about 30 cars he has customized or worked on.  He said he gets on average  100 people a day coming through his museum.  At $5.00 a person you can figure he is doing ok in a town that is struggling to keep going.

This beautifully restored 78 corvette can be had for $25,000.  Bozo has done a beautiful job with it.

Our next stop in Santa Rosa before we left town was at the Blue Hole.  Whatever your imagination is thinking at this moment is wrong.  It is a large sink hole that is filled with water from the Pecos River and is used for swimming and scuba diving.  There is a large scuba center here.  The water is crystal clear and it is quite an amazing place.  There were two kids swimming there when we arrived.

Vicky was now ready to head for Santa Fe!!

We headed for Santa Fe but  before Santa Fe we took a side trip to Las Vegas.  You may now be saying----wait a minute,  Las Vegas is a long way from Santa Fe and you would be correct.  We went to Las Vegas  NM.  A really interesting town on the Santa Fe Trail.  Very old buildings and well maintained.  We had lunch in a nice Mexican restaurant.

Santa Fe was our next stop and it is truly a lovely city especially the Old Town part.  The highlight of our afternoon was visiting an old Spanish chapel that had curved stairs that defy logic.  The story goes that the chapel was built  without a lot of thought about stairs to get to the choir area at the upper back of the church.  A carpenter came to town and said he could build the stairs and spent 6 months building them.  He then left town as mysteriously as he appeared without asking for pay and money for materials.  The spiral stairs have no visible means of support and are truly a marvel.

Around 5:00 p.m.  we decided to head to Albuquerque NM to stay for the night.  Tomorrow we will start our day touring the Old Town here.

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