New map of Santa Fe historic markers just published
This would make a great walking tour of Santa Fe – all of the historic markers and locations in and around the town, brought together in a new map published today.
Zozobra, Santa Fe's Burning Man. Away with Gloom!
LA Times’ Santa Fe stringer Kate Linthicum wrote a great story on this week’s Zozobra celebration
Zozobra is stuffed with things that people ask to be burned: paid-off mortgage papers, shredded copies of police reports, wedding dresses, straitjackets.
“People want to burn their boss, their job, their cancer, their broken relationships,” said Ray Valdez, who has been in charge of building Zozobra for the last 20 years. “We’ll take anything except glass and explosives.”
Zozobra is also filled with slips of paper, scribbled with people’s personal troubles.
At the “gloom booth,” where people were invited to write down their problems to be burned, Sadie Rizika, 5, and her sister, Hannah, 7, picked up pens.
“I wrote for all my bad dreams to go away,” Sadie said. Her father, Steve, 42, decided to write down the names of the negative people in his life. “They’re all going to burn!” he said, laughing.
Santa Fe – Golf Royalty (Chicago Sun Times)
For golfers, this story in today’s Chicago Sun Times highlights the great – and not expensive -golfing opportunities around Santa Fe.
“…Although Santa Fe still lies at the heart of a huge, herbal healing-energy vortex that most golfers will never comprehend, your days of being dragged sullenly through museums, galleries and clothing stores are over. Thanks to new luxury Indian casino golf resorts near Albuquerque and Santa Fe, golfers visiting New Mexico are discovering top-notch four- and five-star golf at a fraction of what they pay elsewhere…..”
The Thrifty Wintry Charms of Santa Fe – New York Times
From today’s New York Times Travel section
“….After New Year’s, holiday crowds are gone and prices drop before their summer ascent, making the cool months a delightful time to visit. Yes, at an elevation of 7,000 feet, Santa Fe gets cold on winter nights, and the average winter high is 40 degrees, but it’s almost always sunny, and the blue sky overhead intensifies the brightness of the ubiquitous turquoise and terra-cotta palette…..A couple on a three-day weekend can stay at immaculate adobe-style hotels, browse at world-class art galleries, tour historic churches, eat flavorful Southwestern cuisine, hike, ski and even soak in a private Japanese hot tub — all for under $500……”