Santa Fe, NM

When you're stressed, there is no better place to unknot. Laid out in the protective foothills of Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Santa Fe's crooked streets follow the contours of uneven earth, offering a scene in the shades of terracotta, ginger, and cappuccino. With an idiosyncratic cosmopolitan style, this town boasts an inordinate number of lodging, galleries, gift shops, and restaurants. It's also the hub of scientific luminaries. Take a stroll up the whistling Canyon Road leading to the piñon foothills - an immersion into Santa Fe's eclectic art world. Cottonwoods provide shade and the sweet fragrance emanates from purple wisteria blossoms as the ancient narrow street De Vargas leads to Santuario de Guadalupe. Take a balloon flight giving yourself to the mercy of wind; the scenery of Rio Grande is worth the risk. Hit your feet strong by dancing flamenco, then join the pottery class to down your passion. Lift your five senses at "Inn of the Five Graces." Open your chakras with color therapy, rejuvenate your body and spirit at the spa Ten Thousand Waves. Dine at izanami, and have the tequila-marinated scallops, shrimp and paella bring to mind balmy ocean breezes. Santa Fe is not only a creative refuge for the gourmets, artists, natural healers, psychics, or physics. Its modern hustle-bustle is tempered and the cowboy belts or boots are de rigueur. Welcome to the city of enchantment! //Written in a pourquoi tale genre, "Santa Fe, NM" completes a series of travel-diaries in the line with: (1) Amalfi Coast, Italy; (2) Amazing Andorra; (3) Amazing Bavaria; (4) Amazing Berlin; (5) Amazing Bhutan; (6) Amazing Cave-Houses; (7) Amazing Domes; (8) Amazing Dublin; (9) Amazing Falkland Islands; (10) Amazing Finland; (11) Amazing Florence; (12) Amazing French Riviera; (13) Amazing Greenland; (14) Amazing Gozo, Malta; (15) Amazing Iceland; (16) Amazing Innsbruck; (17) Amazing Jurmala, Latvia; (18) Amazing Monaco; (19) Amazing Naples; (20) Amazing Palau; (21) Amazing Paris; (22) Amazing Railways; (23) Amazing Salzburg; (24) Amazing Scotland; (25) Amazing Tree Houses; (26) Amazing Vatican; (27) Amazing Vienna; (28) Amazing Windows; (29) Amazing Wyoming; (30) Amazing Zürich; (31) Annecy, France; (32) Austin, Texas; (33) Banff, Alberta; (34) Bruges & Ghent, Belgium; (35) Cabo San Lucas; (36) Celle, Germany; (37) Christmas Island; (38) Cocos Keeling Islands; (39) Colmar, France; (40) Cork & Kenmare, Ireland; (41) Easter Island, Chile; (42) Exquisite Bath, England; (43) Fifty Odd Loci in the United States; (44) Fiji; (45) Granada, Spain; (46) Interlaken and Saint Moritz, Switzerland; (47) Interlaken, Unterseen, St Moritz: Switzerland; (48) Island Saint Helena, British Overseas; (49) Isle of Man; (50) Lafayette, Louisiana; (51) Las Pozas, Xilitla, Mexico; (52) Lecco, Italy; (53) Lille, France; (54) Madeira, Portugal; (55) Montserrat, British West Indies; (56) Mulhouse, France; (57) Myrtle Beach, SC; (58) Nara, Japan; (59) Novo Mesto, Slovenia; (60) Obernai, France; (61) Odd & Outre Places of Washington, DC; (62) Palma de Mallorca, Spain; (63) Poznan, Poland; (64) Saint Lucia; (65) San Marino; (66) Santa Fe, NM; (67) Sardinia, Italy; (68) Sélestat, France; (69) Seville, Spain; (70) Sint Maarten: Dutch & French Overseas; (71) Sintra, Portugal; (72) Socotra Island, Yemen; (73) South Georgia & Sandwich Islands, Britain; (74) St John's: Newfoundland-Labrador, Canada; (75) Strasbourg, France; (76) Svalbard, Norway; (77) The Faroe Islands; (78) The Rabbit Island; (79) The Trulli of Alberobello, Italy; (80) Tristan da Cunha; (81) Via Aurelia; (82) Via Belgica; (83) Via Canalis; (84) Via Claudia Augusta, (85) Via de la Plata, (86) Via Domitia; (87) Via Fossa; (88) Via Hadriana; (89) Via Maris; (90) Via Militaris, (91) Via Pontica, (92) Via Schlavonia, and (93) Wissembourg, France. Note, that the book description below, as conveyed by CreateSpace Inc, is incomplete because CreateSpace was closed in September 2018.