Saturday, June 28, 2008

Santa Fe and Pecos, 1982


Santa Fe Roadway Inn. . . [after driving through] Albuquerque -- illuminated . . . driving tired over big mountain butte . . . lined highway of on and off markings to heaven of blackness then tilt down to lively bright lights, big city . . . on to Santa Fe, little lights . . .

[Next morning:] From Santa Fe toward Pecos to see the area. Kidder's stomping ground is near! Pecos -- real groovy place with original Pueblo of stone construction, kivas and all plus Spanish missions . . . one destroyed 1680s (?) rebellion of the Pueblos. The kiva was very cool and damp in this hot arid land. Plague signs, giant squirrel, lizards and buds. New Mexico is aptly named. Many small poor homesteads, water catchments, adobe brick or piled stone or log. Some are ruins -- Indian, Spanish or rancher (Dillia South on 84 -- good, new road).

It is getting really hot for the first time since South Dakota. Bright sunshine. Mexican and/or Indian workers all over.

New Mexico consists of grazeland hills, dotted with larger green bush/trees, a few buttes of red and white stupes and lots of red clayey dirt. Other portions are denuded of trees and only have grassland and baby bushes. . .

Colonias, New Mexico for gas at Indian store and Stuckey's -- $1.50.

Tucamari for a drink -- neat jet needles, ziggurat, windy, flat, dusty Route 66 -- tumbleweeds . . .

Today's Rune: Journey.

2 comments:

the walking man said...

Santa Fe, the first, not the last, place I ever saw a man passed out in the middle of the day, sleeping it off with his body lying in the street and head on the curb.

My travelogue would read much different than this one.

Charles Gramlich said...

Makes me think for some reason of the movie 10,000 BC, which I watched last night. They went from frozen glacial mountains to lowland delta jungle to desert to savannah and back to desert in basically the same scene.