Soooooooo sorry for the delay...It's been a busy past few weeks but a lot has happened which your about to find out about riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...NOW!
We ended are stay on (Farmer) Dave's farm in great fashion: It was his birthday the day before we left so we got to see all of the friends we made in Mancos all together and party with them one last time. The party was great. (Farmer) Dave made pizza's in his brick oven with crazy fresh ingredients. The night ended with everyone gathered by the fire while a drum circle raged on...until the cops shut the party down. We'd be more upset about that if they weren't the nicest cops ever (they were literally playing with the dogs after they told us to put out the fire). Packed up our stuff the next morning, said goodbye to everyone and head south to Santa Fe. Def gunna miss the people in Mancos but we were both ready to move on.
Get to Santa Fe mid-afternoon where we were staying two nights with Joel, our couch surfing host. Joel was a year older than us and had just finished his first year as a music teacher at a middle school not too far from Santa Fe. One thing that's hard to miss about Santa Fe, let alone all of New Mexico, is the Adobe architecture; even the Wal-Mart was adobe which pissed us off for some reason. Walked around Santa Fe for a while and determined that the most interesting thing about it were the unusually high curbs...I'm talkin' ankle-twisting high. Joel put it best: Santa Fe was just a big Adobe playground for adult tourists to stop by and buy Native American jugs.
The second day ended up being an importand day for DK and I: We had made popsicles to sell on the plaza and DK was going to play his djembe for money. Well, we made one pity-dollar before a bike-cop told us we needed a license to play on the street. However, we did sell 3 popsicles (3 bucks total) before they got all melty and I (Goodman) sat on the curb and scooped melted popsicle into my mouth (not my finest moment). We also had dinner that night with Joel and his friends a.k.a. the only twenty-somethings in Santa Fe. We got kinda drunk and DK and I performed our first karaoke song as a duet: "My Girl" by The Temptations (serious shout out to the BHEC people).
Had really nice conversations with Joel throughout our time in Santa Fe. It was interesting hearing a recent graduate reflect on his decisions to get a job right out of school; and also, hearing his opinions on the state of public schools and his mixed feelings about working at one...so big shout out to Joel for letting us stay at your place and giving us some good conversation topics on our way to Taos where the Earthships await.
What's an Earthship you ask? You could be a normal human and just Google it...or...read our next blog post where we'll probably refer you to Google
Until then...
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