- I wasn’t sure why Mike even wanted this photo. Hmmm 🧐
- Originally constructed to house the first Spanish royal governor of New Mexico, Palace of the Governors, circa 1610, is the oldest continuously operating building in the US.
- Soda Dam is an incredible natural formation of calcium carbonate, built up over centuries. The dam is 300ft. long and 50ft. wide.
- Soaking up the therapeutic water at Jemez Hot Springs, the oldest bath house in New Mexico.
- A tiny mermaid enjoying the Jemez Hot Springs.
- Lizard Rock above a ghost town in Lake Valley, NM. Do you see the giant lizard climbing the hill?
- Outside Sparky’s in Hatch, NM – of COURSE Uncle Sam is carrying a jalepeño pepper!
- Also Sparky’s – Mike next to his favorite guilty pleasure – KFC.
- Getting friendly with the locals.
- Beautiful “ristras” hang everywhere in NM. Not only decorative, they’re a smart way of drying peppers for later use in cooking.
- These habañero peppers rank about 300,000 on the Scoville heat scale, somewhere between Bell peppers (about a 5) and police pepper spray (1.5 million).
- HOT chicken chile in Hatch, NM
- A colorful Cubist rendering of a kiss between Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
- Part of a collaborative mural on the El Rey Theater painted by over 48 artists.
- Dinner with our in-law, Cara, in the film business in Albuquerque.
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