Today was a traveling day. San Francisco to Santa Fe . . .
We crossed the Sierra Nevada.
We found the country of adobe and big sky.
We drank Santa Fe Pale Ale and had a fine meal at the Galisteo Bistro.
A good start to a week-long stay.
Today is International Beer Day, so I thought I’d tell you a little story about a great beer and a nice guy. The beer is Dacker. It’s a full-bodied, goes-down-easy ale, first brewed in the Adirondacks in 1885. We happened upon it in 2007, when it was recommended to us by a server at the…
I’ll be away for three weeks and I’ve decided to leave the porcupine in charge. He’s an industrious dude, perfectly capable of watching over the few posts that will appear here while I’m gone. Besides, if I don’t give him something to do, he’ll chew through everything in sight. Seriously, this guy and his ilk…
Hey! Hello. Remember me — Spike, the porcupine? Shae has gone off to Alaska again. She’ll be back the second week in June and she asked me to watch over her blog while she’s away, like last time. I said yes, even though I wished she hadn’t waited until the last minute to ask me….
Today we did airport things. Very soggy airport things . . . You know how it is. The waiting. The opportunity to spend way too much money on way too much food. Mostly bad food, at that. This time I decided to do air travel differently. I packed all of our food for the day…
A Perfect Day to See Denali Do you ever get tired of using the same old words to describe something — can I say it just once — “amazing”? Consider the white-fisted mountains that knock the breath right out of you, or the sinuous body of a glacial river that silvers along in the late-day…
The accidental result of a cooler mix-up on our coastal California trip, this honey-sweetened apricot apple butter was a welcome addition to breakfast.
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i friggin' love santa fe! go to 10,000 waves!
I've never visited Santa Fe. I have heard that it is beautiful. Have fun!
Tigress: You're not the only one to rave about the Waves. I hope to get there this weekend.
Denise: This is my first visit to Santa Fe; it's an astonishing place and I'm loving it. The wind is coming up and they're saying it may even snow tonight. I'm totally unprepared for that, yet somehow ready for anything.