On our way to AZ we spent several days in northern New Mexico. (June 2015)

Santa Fe is a very beautiful city, rich in history, adobe style buildings, very colorful and clean. 

We spent two evenings just walking around. Celebrated our anniversary here.

Eclectic and artsy.

San Miguel Mission, claims to be the oldest church in the U.S. Built by Tlaxcalan Indians from Mexico in the early 1600's. I liked the bird sitting on top the cross.

Regular church services are still held at San Miguel.

St Francis Cathedral, downtown by the historic Santa Fe Plaza. Plazas date back to the town's beginnings, originally and still a center gathering place. The old missions are so beautiful. 

Colorful shops and restaurants abound.

If you like to hike, this is a good one! Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, about 40 miles south of Santa Fe. The tent shaped rocks, also known as hoodoos, are the result of volcanic activity millions of years ago.

This national monument is a scared site to the Cochiti Pueblo Indians. 

 The hike was a 3 mile in and out.

At times it looked like another planet.

Storm moving in, we got sprinkled on towards the end. We don't mind the rain but we've seen  some intense lightening out here and don't care to get caught on a mountain in a thunder storm, so we picked up the pace.

Hiking thru the slot canyon was most amazing!

More of the slot canyon. With the storm brewing, it got very windy in here, sand started blowing around. 

We came across this little  mission on our way to Taos.  

Las Trampas, a small village established as an American-Spanish settlement in 1751. This church remains a community center where religious ceremonies are still observed. Parishioners periodically re-mud the adobe walls which are as much as 6 ft thick, see scaffolding on one side.

Las Trampas is such a small little settlement, just a few scattered houses, agriculture seems to be the main source of work, we didn't see any stores, in fact we drove by this mission at first then turned arouund to check it out, glad we did. 

 I just had to snap a picture of this RV.

 At a NM casino campground, nice pull thru sites, very reasonable, perfect for a stop over and an easy walk to the casino for a bite to eat. 

All for now. The RV life is treating us well. Love to our family.