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<\/a><\/p>\ninfrastructure disruptions which began while ascending Raton Pass [not shown]<\/p>\n
and continued miles into New Mexico…<\/p>\n Miles down the plains a change of drivers,<\/p>\n Santa Fe for lunch, afternoon art binins transacted<\/p>\n and a home away from…<\/p>\n Home away bordered the Jackalope’s Vast Array of Things<\/p>\n and was convenient to a strangely unpopulated Tortilla Flats for breakfast .<\/a><\/p>\n Following the rescue of Linda’s historic drawings from a dubious-at-best Santa Fe gallery<\/p>\n we found lunch\u00a0<\/a> in Albuquerque before foraying further<\/p>\n into the Southwest Valley to Mitch Berg’s ambitious future studios <\/a>project<\/p>\n and his son Marshall’s <\/a>impressive Truck, destined to deliver and demonstrate chile roasting<\/p>\n around the state [anything past the vertical on that speedometer would be most improbable].<\/p>\n In the heat we returned northeast, haircuts enroute, for barbecued lamb and pasta pomdori,<\/p>\n some NE Albuquerque side views<\/p>\n and come morning some NE Albuquerque civic street art;<\/p>\n North again<\/p>\n into infrastructure disruptions redux which despite the single lane remained mostly<\/p>\n unobstructed until a dozen or so miles before Trinidad we overtook two stoners in a nondescript Honda who led us in to a decidedly nondescript lunch at an excruciating twenty miles an hour below the [construction!] speed limit.\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome to Colorful Colorado,<\/p>\n Land of the Free, Home of the Doped.\u00a0 But home we got,<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n