We drove the 87 miles in good time to arrive about 10.30am in Santa Fe. the GPS didn't quite get us to the motel we wanted but we did end up in an historic building adapted as a motel and within an easy walk to the central plaza of the old quarter.
There's no getting away from it that this part of town is pretty touristy,but who cares, the shops and hotels,and other public buildings are all Adobe.The general street-scapes are very appealing..We saw the plaza, the Catholic Cathedral, and a statue of St Francis of Assisi,
After a very nice Mexican lunch we went to the New Mexico History Museum...it gave us a great insight into the often very bloody and hostile past of NM and the role Santa Fe played in it all.
Kit Carson wasn't portrayed as such a great guy here... he oversaw the slaughter of many Puebloan Indians.
We discovered that Santa Fe is a very artistic city, with both local Indian/Mexicans and Europeans both those who have lived here for generations and those who have moved here from other parts of the US.
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