{"id":4086,"date":"2015-10-25T17:14:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T23:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2016-09-08T09:36:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T06:36:02","slug":"walsenburg-co-to-deming-nm-with-a-stop-in-santa-fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/walsenburg-co-to-deming-nm-with-a-stop-in-santa-fe\/","title":{"rendered":"Walsenburg, CO, to Deming, NM (with a Stop in Santa Fe)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another very, very, very long day, but it was the last big one. It’ll be a short haul tomorrow, then three days of sort of rest, then 2.5 reasonable days to my Mexican casita.<\/p>\n

I had an okay night of sleep and was on the road by about 6:45 because I had plans to meet John for brunch in Santa Fe, 3.25 hours away. It being the crack of dawn on a Sunday, the espresso bar I’d been hoping to get my coffee at was shut tight, but there was a fresh pot of decent coffee on a the 7-Eleven, where I had to get fuel anyway.<\/p>\n

It was still quite dark out when a car passed me honking madly. It wasn’t until the passenger rolled down his window and yelled, “GO RIDERS!” that I realised they were fellow Saskatchewanites!<\/p>\n

I paused at a rest area and caught a Colorado sunrise.<\/p>\n

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Next rest area, probably in New Mexico at this point, had markedly different vegetation than what I’d been seeing up to that point:<\/p>\n

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I’d asked John to choose a place not too far from the interstate and he suggested Cafe Fina<\/a>, which was right at the on and off ramp to I-25. Very convenient! You order at a counter, get a number to place your on your table, and then your meal is brought to you. John had Tex-Mex brunchy food and I had lunch food. We both had a very delicious coffee. We ate outside and the weather was perfect for it!<\/p>\n

Vicki has requested photos of food, so here is the yummy\u00a0chicken, bacon, caramelized onion, and cheese sandwich (hold the mayo) I had with a really good salad:<\/p>\n

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John and I had a quick catchup, then it was time for \u00a0me to head off again. I was due for fuel, so I asked him\u00a0where I should go and he said that if I wasn’t desperate, I should wait to get fuel at a pueblo a short distance down the road. He was right. I paid less than $2 a gallon!!! AND they gave me a free coffee. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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My next stop was Socorro, where I paused to do some hotel research and scored another deal on Priceline. From there, it was a very long 2.5 hours to Deming, where I am hoping to get a good night’s sleep. I’m in no rush tomorrow and probably won’t get going till mid to late morning. There’s a Walmart almost right next door, so I might do my shopping there instead of stopping in Benson. Perhaps I should check the sales tax rates before I decide!<\/p>\n

I’ve been seeing Mexico tourism-related signs for a bit now. I can’t believe I’m already essentially at the border!<\/p>\n

Off to find a cold beer. It is HOT out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another very, very, very long day, but it was the last big one. It’ll be a short haul tomorrow, then three days of sort of rest, then 2.5 reasonable days to my Mexican casita. I had an okay night of sleep and was on the road by about 6:45 because I had plans to meet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,889,19,635,863,864,3,16,867],"tags":[853,794],"class_list":["post-4086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado","category-deming","category-new-mexico","category-north-america","category-santa-fe","category-socorro","category-travel","category-usa","category-walsenburg","tag-accommodation","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}