patrice wrote:
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> We're here in Santa Fe at the moment having a bit of down time.
> As most good technoDallasites, we brought ye olde wireless laptop with us.
> First night we got in late to ABQ and ate at Cervantes - we enjoyed it,
> it was tasty, with no discernible "tex mex" flavor. I had a vegetarian
> plate with red and green chile salsa on top - very nice. Spouse had
> carne adovado (his fave, which you'll see appearing again in this post)
> which was fall apart tender. The rest of the accompanying stuff was
> average, but not bad. I had a really nice prickly pear margarita -
> quite nice. For breakfast we went to Grandma's K n (and?) I on
> Broadway, which was recommended by a gentleman at the airport during an
> extended stopover in Amarillo. What a great little hole in the wall. I
> had two (well, I finished about three quarters of them) monster sized,
> delicious pancakes. Spouse had a breakfast burrito with carne adovado -
> he was one happy camper.
> Yesterday, we arrived in Santa Fe (love Madrid on the Turquoise Trail -
> this is our second time going through. This time we got a lesson in
> glass blowing). Ate at Tomasita's for dinner - it wasn't horrible, but
> was nothing outstanding. Okay, their sopas were wonderful, but it
> wasn't really worth the hour wait.

The one other great thing about Tomasita's is the green chile. It is
absolutely wonderful.
Everything else was bland, including bland ground beef. My wife liked
the entree OK, and she loved the sopas. Something interesting is that
a fast food (Del Taco) joint has reproduced MN Style green almost
perfectly

> Today was breakfast at the BnB (eh) and then a wonderful chocolate
> croissant at The French Bakery. Tonight is dinner at La Casa Sena
> Cantina. (after a dip in the baths at Ten Thousands Waves).

Nicely clothing optional. Speaking of which, if you have the courage
to drive past Los Alamos, on the side of a thousand + foot drop off (we
went all the way around through Bernalillo because of my acrophobia)
there are some nice clothing optional hot springs, one of which is only
a few minutes off the highway:
http://www.jemezsprings.org/hotsprings.html

The little town of Jemez Springs is nice, and you can get a cheap but
clean motel room.
Also, in Bernalillo my wife highly recommends the Range Cafe.
http://www.restaurant-spy.com/showre...nt-172487.html

The drive from Bernalillo to Jemez is stunningly beautiful with huge
mesas.
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> patrice

--Bryan