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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