Santa Fe, New Mexico
Come to the Southwest and explore lovely Santa Fe, a place known for its high desert landscape, adobe architecture, pinion pines, clear air, Southwest food, and old world flavor. The Pueblo Indians are the region's oldest culture. The Navajo and Apache migrated here, and the Spanish influence is apparent in the historic sites.
Santa Fe rivals New York as an art center; Friday night the galleries host openings to view the latest arrivals; the museums and shops offer a smorgasbord of art treasures and the local Native Americans' sell their crafts at a sidewalk gallery. We'll take a city tour, visit the famous Loretto Chapel stairway, walk the labyrinth in the courtyard of the church of San Francisco, and see a collection of the sepia photographs that made Edward Curtis known as a chronicler of Native American tribal life. If we stayed within the plaza limits, saturating ourselves with art, we'd miss a lot else.
Outside the city limits the road next to the meandering Rio Grande River takes us to the Taos Pueblo, where gravesites are recycled and the Corn Goddess adorns the altar of the Catholic chapel. Returning by the High Road, which offers spectacular views of the mountain range, we'll stop at Chimayo's Sanctuario so anyone who wishes can take some of the miraculous healing sand that never runs low. One day we'll drive to Abiququi to visit the Ghost Ranch, first home of Georgia O'Keefe, and follow the road to El Rito, and the old general store that takes up the tiny town's center. Another day we'll head for Ojo Caliente, the mineral baths and, a little way down the road, the Rancho San Juan hotel where we'll enterThe Grotto ,completely hand hewn inside, a chapel space without reference to deity. Then there is the Santa Fe Opera, Tesuque's Shidoni Foundry where huge sculptures are cast and we can view the pouring of the molten metals; there's the Pueblo flea market, the Santa Fe railway, Museum Hill and the Museum of Folk Art, Ten Thousand Waves for massage and a hot bath…so much to do and see, whatever there is time and interest for…
Join us! Cost of $1350. includes shared lodging, touring, most meals, all ground transportation. Does not include airfare or alcohol or optional services.
Call for information: 508 904-5843 or email majcape@hotmail.com.