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Cañada del Arrastradero

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    • Day 20

      Santa Fe und Taos

      May 14, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      Heute sind wir von Albuquerque über Santa Fe nach Taos gefahren. Erstmal eine Stunde über die Interstate nach Santa Fe. Endlich nach einer Woche wieder ohne Sturm. Einfach herrlich🤗
      In Santa Fe hat dann das Wetter umgeschlagen. In den Bergen hingen dunkle Wolken und genau da wollten wir hin. Also: Augen zu und durch. Nach 30 Minuten Fahrt sind wir in ein Gewitter gekommen. Als es dann auch noch das Hageln angefangen hat, haben wir uns einen Unterstand gesucht und abgewartet. Dann haben wir uns unser Teletubbie Kostüm angezogen und sind weiter gefahren. Die restliche Fahrt war nass und kalt. Trotzdem richtig schön die Berge und Wälder hier. Nur das mit dem Campen lassen wir heute lieber.Read more

    • Day 21

      More Adobes

      October 28, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C

      If you can create a silk purse out of a pig’s ear then churches out of mud are the architectural equivalent.
      Long before any Nimbin hippie had a crack at an adobe abode ancient people were slapping this stuff around to create their own little mud cottage with a picket fence.

      Imagine Bunnings a few thousand years ago, you’d walk in and say “excuse me, can you help me, what isle is the mud in?”...” oh, that will be isles one to twenty six sir”.
      And you wouldn’t be walking around going tut tut... I remember when we manufactured all our own mud now we have all these cheap imports from China.

      Cheap imports never last and this church proves it. It was built using local people with local materials a few years before Captain Cook got a farewell from some other locals at Botany Bay, thinking that is probably the last we’ll see of them.

      There is a small graveyard enclosed in the church grounds and the dates on some of these headstones go way back to its earliest times. The descendants of the original builders still maintain the building and graveyard and like the crudeness of the materials used their epitaphs are not all that refined.
      My favourite reads...IN MEMORIA DE AGAPITA LOPEZ DEAD MARCH 5 1935

      There are a few possibilities with this headstone. One is they were dearly loved but this was erected by an unschooled person. Or two, someone needed an accurate marker to piss on.
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