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We are Jackie and Marco, a couple having been together for more than 25 years. We are both originally from Switzerland and fell in love with Southern California, when Marco did his MBA in San Diego in [...]

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Sep 3, 2003

Bandelier National Monument

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7:45 we must have been very tired once again. Since we only want to go to Santa Fe today we take it easy. Marco is checking on our stocks and I use the time for a decent workout. We leave the hotel shortly after 10:00 on Hwy 64 to Bloomfield there we turn on Hwyn550/44 to Cuba. At the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation we turn into a gravel road, hoping to see some wild horses. Horses we don’t see but some picturesque mountains. We take SR126 (on the map it’s marked as a local Hwy – in reality it is at its best a gravel road) and 4 to Santa Fe. On SR 4 we pass the Bandelier National Monument – more ruins of cliff and cave dwellings. We stop and take a half hour walk through the place. In Santa Fe it’s rainy and windy and we are tired. We find a room at the Red Roof Inn and have a quick dinner at the Mexican place one block away.