The long road to Santa Fe

Greetings folks! I apologize for being a few days delinquent on the blog. Too much fun to be had I suppose. ;)  

Saturday was a long travel day for me but overall great. Quick shout out to Bolt bus.  If  any of you ever need to get to Philly or DC from NYC, I highly recommend it! I've taken it twice now, once for the Inauguration and then this past Saturday down to Philly, and have loved it both times. You can sometimes find tickets for under $10! free wifi, really friendly drivers, clean bus, what more can I say.  Maybe I'm missing the bus transportation from my past 2 trips to South America, but I have become a Bolt addict. check it out at www.boltbus.com

So after my early morning bolt down to Philly (thanks for the breakfast Eric and Brit!) I flew to Atlanta and then to Albuquerque. Great flights on both ends. Arriving in Albuquerque I hopped on the Sandia shuttle up to Santa Fe.  Another great method of transportation if you don't want to do a rental car in Santa Fe.  Very friendly staff and clean van.  So you can see after bus, plane, plane, shuttle how tired I was finally arriving in Santa Fe at 9pm.  But I rallied and we headed out to the Cowgirl bbq, www.cowgirlsantafe.com.  It's a famous bbq joint in town that puts a feminist twist on the whole wild west/bbq theme. So obviously, I loved it! (And Andrea Horner, I could not stop thinking of how much you would love this place)  There were old pictures of cowgirls everywhere and the waitress' outfits were pretty hysterical. From pink rhinestone cowgirl hats (with a hole for a pony tail I might add) to hats with strands of lights on them and on and on.  If I hadn't been so exhausted I would have taken pics. Damn.  Anyways, we were definitely not in the minority for an all female table on Valentine's night if you know what I'm saying. :)  I think we only threw them off a little by being 3 instead of 2.  crazy New Yorkers.  ;)  I decided to try a smoky margarita which at the time I thought I liked but now I'm not so sure. That said, I've been sampling quite a few margs on this trip and I think had I foregone the smokiness that would have been the best margarita.  I ate a delicious quesadilla with bbq brisket on the inside. I was pretty skeptical of this too but it had been recommended so I thought why the hell not? and, I tell you what, it was pretty tasty.  So if you're ever out that way check it out, the restaurant, quesadilla and margarita: the smokiness is up to you.  Be forewarned though that if you want a cab to take you home it took about 40 minutes to get ours! 

Day 1 done and a pretty good start.