Here..........

Only been here a couple days now but have some thoughts about this place. This is would be a good place to retire and put down some roots in. While it's desert and the temps for the last couple days have been in the high 90's, it doesn't get that way until late afternoon. Then as soon as the sun sets, the temps fall off into the real comfortable zone. I'm sitting outside the portacrib right now and it's probably around 68 or so. A little breeze blowing and you can smell the sage from the desert.

There is plenty to do in the area. Skiing is as close as the eastern slopes of the Sandia's just outside Albuquerque and world class stuff is 141 miles up the road in Taos, which is where we are going next. Fishing is good around here as there are several rivers and lakes in the area. Summertime water skiing is good. 4 wheeling and 4x4ing in the deserts outside of town seems to be big here too, as is hiking, mountain biking etc.

The city itself has everything you'd want in a city. Good resturants, shoping, etc......

Matt/Jim, if you are reading this, there are crystal clear inland lakes that are definitely diveable, probably year round.

Jim/Carol, get just a little ways outside the city at night and the sky is bigger than you can imagine. You could count the stars until the world stops turning and not get to the end of them. You can scoop up a handful of sand from the desert floor and let trickle out of your hand while looking up at those stars and try to figure out just where in between all that we fit in. Freeky deeky shit mon......

BTW, been reading the HSV times online. Carole, hope you arent' on that letter list!

On a completely different note, Karen got a hankerin' to go to the Hispanic grocery that's a couple miles from the park. Pretty cool store. They have a hell of a meat department with stuff like precut and mixed up fajita makings, chorizo...etc...... 12oz cans of tomato/clam juice for bloody mary's, peppers that'll make you sweat just looking' at 'em.....

Oh, yeah, Michael, they also have.......

Ummmmm good. Wish you had some... :-)