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Ok, I think I’ve got my photos ready to go here…. They’ll stand in for a travelogue. I’ll just make a couple of notes here and there. More than anything else, I think I most enjoyed meeting and talking with all of the people we encountered at various places. I don’t really have the energy or time to describe them here right now - but I suspect that I will blog on bits and pieces of conversations over the coming weeks. For now, this is going to be about the photos.

We stayed much longer than planned with our friend Michael - Bricoleuer, Roboticist, Artist, Scientist, and All Around Interesting Person. At the beginning of the trip, he hosted a huge party, and we met tons of fascinating people. We owe him, simple as that. We ended up having to crawl back to him after the camping part of the trip, because of illness and exhaustion. His actions were well above and beyond the call of duty or even friendship, and we are very, very grateful.

Here is John and Michael out on the deck, which looked out toward Sante Fe from the foothills. You could just see the Sandia Crest, in Albuquerque.

Here’s Ben - hasn’t he grown?

This is a small part of Michael’s scary food collection. Please comment if you know of scary food to add to his collection (grin).

These were taken at a storefront in Sante Fe, while we were on our way to dinner. I took the one of Ben, and Ben took the one of the rest of us.

The cactus was in bloom.