140 miles from Grants to Santa Fe, NM. Temperature in the 70s and sunny. We are staying 2 nights at La Fonda, a Fred Harvey hotel run initially for tourists coming here on the Santa Fe railroad. Fred Harvey ran all the restaurants and cafeterias for the SF rr as well as some of their hotels. I think there were 48 in total from Kansas City to California. Mary Colter, the same architect of La Posada, was the interior designer for this place. Our room overlooks the old Santa Fe trail.
We had a delicious Mexican lunch at the restaurant here and wandered the shops before relaxing in our room. One of the Navajo jewelry artists complemented me on the tourquoise jewelry I am wearing as the black and blue stones are apparently hard to come by now; the mine is closed. We'll do more wandering tomorrow as everything is within blocks of our hotel.