Santa Fe, New Mexico: A Unique American City - S11E15

[@gypsyminstrels8744]

When I was a youngster , 50's and 60's , the story told about the miracle staircase was that when the church was nearly complete they could not figure out anything but a ladder to reach the choir loft , which was not good for nuns in habits . An old itenerent carpenter happened by on his burro and offered to build something . It was done quickly with no one watching and he slipped away without a word or asking for his pay and when the sisters went in they found the staircase . There were no screws , nails or glue , only wooden pegs holding together the seven inner and nine outer stringers . Absolutely love that I knew Santa Fe , Taos , Chimayo , Los Alamos , Old Town Albuquerque and that whole area back then . Different world now . Great video , enjoying these videos from my old stomping grounds .

[@pamelabassett7778]

That’s the same that I learned about the staircase

[@thehighlanders607]

Robert, I'm with you, I hate paying for parking, especially when you feel you are being overcharged.

[@RobertCawood-pf9nh]

I am with you as well my family and me hate pain adorn piece of parking. Also, my name is Robert as well.

[@thehighlanders607]

@@RobertCawood-pf9nh Right on Robert!

[@alphpup3281]

I agree, it was remarkably empty on this video normally it is packed with tourists and prices are high. I have lived there most of my life, back when I was a kid, you had very few tourist shops with woolworths and Safeway and sears downtown, free parking. The locals hung out on the plaza and shopped downtown. It is very different now. What is the same are the amazing blue skies fresh air. The chile ristras are real. By the way, I grew up on Canyon Road. I remember my neighbors mixing up the adobe to build their houses. There was a grocery store and a gas station as well as Claudes bar on Canyon road. My house was build with adobe decades ago and has vegas, latillas and mud stucco. The architecture is not Santa Fe “style” it is Santa Fe.

[@26laf]

I really enjoy Santa Fe. It's one of those US cities that makes you feel like you are in another country. Thanks for sharing!

[@UncleMilty]

Wow! Back in the early 90s when we lived there, there were a lot more vendors at the Palace. I think the lack of $$ is hitting everywhere, it's a very expensive town. Yes, real peppers. I miss the clouds and the sunsets, most beautiful of anywhere.

[@Floridiansince94]

Love the music minute 14:27 and 17:59 - makes want to rewatch the Lewis and Clark episodes

[@C-TOS]

New Mexico is a land of enchantment.

[@LifeIsTripping]

New subby! Your page was recommended to us by Mike Galgano. Love your opening song, narration, choice of music, and all of the footage you captured in this video! 👍🏽

[@cwinders1]

My wife and I were there in Santa Fe in May. We also went to Taos and Bandelier. Such a beautiful part of the country. Thanks for all you do Robert. My wife and I always watch your videos before we travel to get info and inspiration.

[@clane1700]

Thank you for visiting my home town. Very old city.

[@GenXvanlife69]

Mine too. I always wanted to live in one of the apartments above the first floor on the plaza.

[@elmandalorian6671]

The architecture is fascinating for a town with such a unique temperature 🌡 range.

[@bottlebaby]

114 away after I added my like . Such an easy going video.

[@michelemcdanieltravels]

Thank you for setting aside a day to travel back once again to the historic part of Santa Fe. That incredible and unmistakeable architecture is just beautiful. Your walking tours are always awesome, filled with fun facts, history and scenes that evoke the feeling of having visited myself. The original classic music was a nice touch, too. It was great to have a bit of time during our trip to watch this enjoyable episode. Keep it up!

[@BikesBoatsBivouacs]

Well, Santa Fe is now on my list when we travel to the west. Nice job Robert.

[@jorgemiro1613]

Robert Santa Fe New Mexico is awesome the adobe style homes and buildings are my favorite architecture. You do a great job in your traveling videos. We're hooked. 2 questions: 1 did you have to get a drone license to fly the Mavic? 2. Find any Cuban croquettes or potato balls along the way? I go to vickey bakery when I am in Miami. My favorite steak sandwich comes from Morro Castle in Hialeah 😅

[@TravelingRobert]

Hi, yes I got my part 107 license a couple of years ago. Best Cuban food is in the Miami area. I have found variations here and there, even in Alaska, but never the real thing.

[@jamiecoyne]

Robert. Imagine my surprise when I saw you ate at the thunderbird. I ate there 25 years ago when it was the ore house. It was very good then. I was further surprised when you ate outside on the second floor at the same table I did! It was February then and the heater was on. Saw cowboys on horseback in the town square. Great trip.

[@sammy7068]

wow nice loved the state capital peace

[@omarkhanlilcurry]

Robert go ahead and visit the very large array in Socorro New Mexico if you can! It’s fascinating

[@TravelingRobert]

I did, earlier on this trip. I always wanted to go there

[@bobpoole8497]

We love the Santa Fe architecture. In fact, we had our Wickenburg house built in that style and is painted the same reddish color. Thanks for the video, Robert.

[@debbiewerner7124]

Such a Beautiful and Unique place ❤

[@junefidel3905]

Hey robert! Finally saw your youtube page

[@jeannestark6293]

Hey Robert this is vintage you my husband and I watch you every Sunday! Jeanne and Scott Stark Clearwater Florida! More people should watch you

[@Twobarpsi]

Excellent tour of Santa Fe Robert!

[@stacyhazelwood4033]

We really enjoy you visiting all the beautiful old churches. You always give us a tour of any historic ones that you pass.

[@gloriacerrillo228]

Love your videos and travels ❤️ So happy you made it to our beautiful state!!! More to enjoy for next time you visit!!!

[@daneboro6847]

Awesome video Brother 📹 👏 👌 👍

[@daemocd]

Very good Robert!

[@jimmoore7725]

I really like Santa Fe. It has been a few years since I was there. I hope to return there and stay a few days. Enjoyed the visit today.

[@doreenmcleod8444]

Late watching today. You had to compete with the last stage of the Tour de France. We loved Santa Fe and bike all over town. Another great video!

[@Morogorin]

I work in Santa Fe (though I live a minute from Bernalillo). Glad you enjoyed your time!

[@Morogorin]

And yes, parking in Santa Fe is awful! I used to work for the company that owns the Inn & Spa at Loretto (they don't own the chapel), so I'm very familiar with that area.

[@toddramsay977]

$15 all day is nothing. We were in Boston, MA, we went to see The North Church, Paul Revere’s home, the USS Constitution etc. we parked in a parking garage. We were there for 4.5 hrs. It was $14 / hr. We paid about $60. $15 dollars I am happy.

[@cactusinthemirror]

Our favorite RV Park in SF is the Santa Fe Skies. We try and visit every summer. Great video!

[@jenniferbaragar8254]

Beyond beautiful! Absolutely stunning and inspiring. Thank you for sharing your expert video and music, which is always appreciated.❤

[@gi169]

Awesome Mr. Robert, my family is from there. May I suggest that the next time you visit the area you visit Chimaio there you will find not much, but a couple of special places firstly Santuario de Chimayo a place that people go to for healing dirt... Next is an awesome restaurant Rancho de Chimayó. Thank you for the video... 🍻

[@TravelingRobert]

I was going to go but something got in the way. Next time.

[@gi169]

@@TravelingRobert Oh, I didn't know you knew... Awesome places, but what you show is just as good... Thank you as usual Mr. Robert.

[@laurafoote214]

Such a beautiful area, love the architecture and colors.

[@brendawhisenhunt8444]

Santa Fe is still very pretty!! I didn't know the Santa Fe trail was Rt 66..

[@alphpup3281]

Route 66 ran through Santa Fe until 1937, after that it followed what is now the I40.

[@susanboatman7913]

Beautiful churches and art

[@joec4871]

Now Robert, fifteen dollars to park all day is not steep at all 😂😂. I've been to New Mexico and it's a beautiful state. I rode my motorcycle there from New York. You get an old time wild west feeling there. Safe travels.

[@hunglikejesus6097]

These are my fave types of videos.

[@joycemosakowski3648]

Santa Fe is magnificent, didn't realize how beautiful it is. There must be a pike season for tourists.

[@joeg5414]

"Fall. Late August brings cooler nights and declining water temperatures. Pike feed heavily as this happens because their instincts are telling them the coldwater period of inactivity is approaching. The fall is one of the best times of the year to target pike, and it is a great time to look for a real trophy fish"

[@joycemosakowski3648]

Oh, thank you for that information! 😊

[@debralewis-potts7148]

Love this episode. Love Santa Fe. . Next time check out the train that runs between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. you don’t have to move your car to enjoy both cities

[@Seddy22]

Thats my city! Glad to see you making your way through again!

[@thegeipels]

Thank you for this wonderful look back ❤ we visited Santa Fe in June 22 during our trip on entire 66. Santa Fe is one of the most beautiful cities in the USA, our opinion. Did you also visit Madrid? We love it 😍 🇺🇸❤️

[@Impassion]

Aw, you were in my city! It would have been so fun to run into you!! 😄

[@ShawnPatterson402]

Santa Fe looks like a really nice city to visit. Have not been there yet, but it is in the plans for sure....continued safe travels...

[@ednakrueger8381]

It’s been a while since I’ve been to Santa Fe but there was a restaurant/bar with a piano in it. Think name was Vanessie’s? It seemed to be west of the downtown area I want to say along Canyon Rd. Had good food and drinks along with a great pianist. Many of the locals went there. It was also a gathering place for folks after attending the opera. The Santa Fe Opera is beautiful open Arena with the stars as your roof. World class performers would come and perform. Some will go to Vanesies afterwards for food, drink and sometimes perform impromptu for those there.

[@jacquelinerocha6509]

Amazing Ride! Thanks!!

[@andreloshon3344]

beautiful city....

[@Yawndave]

Hey Robert, nice to join you on your Santa Fe walkabout this morning. So much interesting art and architecture there. And great food too...there used to be a vendor in the plaza, right where the guitarist was sitting -- he had the best tamales ever. Good to see Illy's shadow making a cameo appearance 🙂 Next time you're in the area I highly recommend visiting Meow Wolf -- it's like no place you've ever been. See you next time on Rt 66...until then, happy trails!

[@lynettem23]

Great video. New Mexico is one of my favorite states.

[@TracyMiller805]

Beautiful churches!

[@terryhicks7235]

In 2020 after Covid hit we spent a week in Sante Fe and it looked much the same - everything closed - then we understood why - amazing now still the same

[@alrichardson7027]

Ohhhh WOW!!

[@debbiephillips2013]

I was in Santa Fe July 5. I was intending on staying and exploring a few days while camping in dispersed camping. It was too crowded for me after spending nearly 2 weeks at various canyons. And I couldn't figure out where to park or what to do with my dogs, so I just left. I stayed at a really nice core of engineer campground called overlook campground about 30 minutes away. I will go back again to explore when I have my camper with me and can leave the dogs in the camper with the air conditioning on and not on a holiday weekend. I want to do the museums.

[@annrichardson6957]

The best time to visit is in summer. Being at 7000 ft elevation, it’s cooler and is busting with attractions and people. I grew up there and was baptized in the cathedral.

[@leosmith9301]

Next time you are in Santa Fe, visit Meow Wolf, an interactive art installation. You should allow at least 2 hours for Meow Wolf.

[@shaundavidson2582]

Howdy, From Perry,Fl. One day I will go West, For now I got Georgia on my mind. Aug 19th to the 25th Pine Mountain,Ga. Our 30th wedding Anniv. and a side day trip to visit Horseshoe Bend Military Nat'l Park in AL.

[@amyrobinson3119]

Both your grandmothers were Ruiz nice history.

[@dylanreynolds8264]

good job with the new mexico video robert

[@sterjulie56]

The large baptismal font is used for full immersion baptisms of adults at the Easter Vigil.

[@alphpup3281]

I also like Church St restaurant. The butter pack on your New Mexican dish is so burqueno.

[@patricescattolin43]

Odd to see Sainte Katheri in New Mexico as she was born and lived in Montreal region. There are a few small monuments in her honor on the south Shore.

[@ednakrueger8381]

Just checked. Vanessie restaurant is still there in Santa Fe on W. San Francisco street

[@donaldinnewmexico]

In New Mexico cities, it is not called the town square. It is called The Plaza.

[@brianc6218]

Great video. I’m not a huge fan of Santa Fe. Way too touristy and artsy for me. It’s cool to visit if you’ve never been but I prefer many other places in New Mexico including Albuquerque where I lived.

[@kristinapeters2534]

The Santa Fe Trail started in Independence Mo or at least that was what I was taught in school

[@joeg5414]

I live like 3 hours from Santa Fe, near Durango CO. I need to go down there more often instead of Albuquerque. Way nicer.

[@flyingrv6]

Robert, come to Taos. I own property there and you can stay as long as you like.

[@Marvel_Polaris]

I'm watching listening 🎶 and 😉 enjoying 😌 the trip . Nice landscapes and landmarks are being shown. Thanks. #RobertandLily 😊

[@ednakrueger8381]

A pretty good place to eat if you like India food is India Palace. Their flat bread is greasy baked in a brick oven

[@martinasmolka2144]

I am from Pennsylvania near Philly, Robert. Did you ever when to Jim Thorpe Pa? It is called the Switzerland of America. The film Molly Magners was in town. It is worth seeing the courthouse and jail. There is on the top on the middle of state near NY State. The grand canyon of Pa a nice to visit. I like your videos. Martina

[@TravelingRobert]

Haven't been there yet

[@eddienegrete3097]

We visited Santa Fe during Covid and I caught a ghostly chatter speaking my son's name when no one was at the oldest house in that room with the bed.

[@eddienegrete3097]

I saw you didn't try their green chile

[@johncarlo8557]

Robert I was there in the 70s and it's nothing like it was Like it is now Sad

[@Floridiansince94]

Yes , Robertico- do the Santa Fe trail ;) oh no- the trail doesn’t exist - oh well! That is a gorgeous cathedral! Christ is King!

[@dzac1957]

Ristas are real. :)

[@FlourishingLove]

Robert, that house can't be the oldest in the US. I know of one in Connecticut that is from the 1630's, called the Henry Whitfield House, (very cool house to see!). There may be even older ones than that. Still very interesting place, there in Santa Fe, but not the oldest in the country.

[@ednakrueger8381]

@@FlourishingLove I looked up the information on the house. Says that it’s hard to tell how old it is. But does mention that there’s an area of the house that may suggest some of it may of been built before 1500’s when the Spanish conquistadors came through. So it’s got a varied history. Did find out that the Capitol building maybe 1608? When built.

[@FlourishingLove]

@@ednakrueger8381 Thank you. Which house are you referring to in your reply? Either way, it's fascinating.

[@ednakrueger8381]

@@FlourishingLove talking mainly of the house thought to be the oldest house in Santa Fe. But then I talk of the Capitol building as well. The building that’s the capitol maybe as old as over 400 years. Think it’s the oldest capitol in America

[@alphpup3281]

lol. I have been to the “oldest house in the USA” in Santa Fe and also in St. Augustine Florida.

[@michelecox5241]

It is. Native Americans count.

[@JudyBeren]

What did you do rent the whole town

[@teddarr7887]

It's a shame you chose to go back to Albuquerque for dinner. I've always considered Santa Fe to be the leader in culinary experience in all of the SouthWest styles of food.

[@stevejacobsen1872]

If you go to the visitor center the parking is free

[@rosaliewhite4040]

❤

[@johnp139]

Did you get Santa Fe chicken? 🐔

[@jimkelly4143]

Parking at $15 ALL day in Santa Fe?.....It's $15 to park for 1 Hour in many parts of Manhattan lol😂

[@brendawhisenhunt8444]

I can't ever find spicy Mexican food... Great video!!

[@robertschaefer3223]

A church asking not to be given money?

[@TravelingRobert]

🤣

[@michelecox5241]

Native Americans lived in this place long before the Spaniards came.

[@marciacunningham5877]

Santa Fe is being Californicated...So sad. Traffic has tripled in 3 years. Homeless people everywhere. No place left to dance, except La Fonda. I have sold thousands of sculptures since 1981. Now it is basically a tourist trap. Sorry about the negativity, but the truth is the truth. Michael

[@kentmusgrove5038]

Santa Fe is an interesting city, however it is extremely liberal and is a San Francisco wannabe. The arrogance of people in Santa Fe is off the chart.

[@joeg5414]

it's a very artsy city. Every eccentric artist old lady I know likes to go there for weekend art trips. I live like 3 hours from Santa Fe

[@clane1700]

Yes, unfortunately. It is my home town but I no longer live there. Californiacated.

[@gypsyminstrels8744]

Not the Santa Fe I knew decades ago , and hasn't been for a long time .

[@clane1700]

@@gypsyminstrels8744 that’s for sure!

[@jpking51]

I wouldn't say "extremely" liberal, but yes, it definitely leans Democratic. That's part of the reason I moved here 25 years ago. It has less than 1/8 the population of San Francisco, and just as in San Francisco, there are lots of "regular people," including many who can trace their families back for centuries.

[@traveling2see]

Great video as always. I wanted to correct you on the oldest home in America, I thought it was in St Augustine, but I learned that it is in Mass. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairbanks_House_(Dedham,_Massachusetts)#:~:text=The%20Fairbanks%20House%20in%20Dedham,been%20verified%20by%20dendrochronology%20testing.