In there there's the shiny stuff!
Oh wow, look at this!
I was judged by the dullmen's club, to be one of the 12 dullest people in America!
It is so high 650 feet!
We're Marianne and Chris in 2018
we quit the nine to five and bought Trudy our camper van.
We are currently on an adventure to drive the circumference of the World.
We survived the night, there was no knocks at the door last night!
So we stayed here in the car park of Home Depot,
not really the ideal place to sleep in the middle of a city,
but hey ho these things happen when you're traveling full time,
and it doesn't always go according to plan.
But today we thought as we were in Santa Fe we thought it's nearly lunch time,
we should probably go and find some food, find some park up,
do a little bit of shopping.
I'm just putting the chocks under the seat where they belong,
and i've noticed we've still got all this very fine white sand,
from our times in white sands park!
She needs a bit of a brush out!
Don't judge my housework!
Just coming into the centre of Santa Fe they've got like these
they look a bit like mud houses,
yeah they must be to keep the heat out during the fierce heat of summer.
Although we are 2,000 meters up!
Maybe also to keep the heat in, in the winter during the fierce cold of winter ! Maybe!
So we've found this parking lot thanks to our friend Sam and Andy for recommending this,
there's a parking lot here with lots of different food trucks
they probably think we're going to set up in competition!
as an an ice cream truck ?!
Well I'm excited! oh they have got little tables there!
When are you not excited about food?
This is the reason that we love each other it's all about food!
They have got Thai, pizza, and they have got tacos!
They have got donuts and they got barbecue!
Marianne's thinking about the pizza, these guys look they make their own fresh bread,
they got the wood fired oven.
Their own noodles, their own dough! It's all fresh here!
Thank you so much - you are welcome.
So what have you got?
I got some Thai curry here and i have to say look at this .....
this i've been i haven't had Thai food for so long!
And i saw this truck and thought i just have to try that.
So we've got some Thai curry
so you can see it's got spices, some carrots, some
kefir lime leaves, oh my goodness, the flavours of this are going to be fabulous i could tell already!
Oh yeah those are good familiar flavours!
I love food trucks!
$12 you get a good hearty home-cooked meal,
and we've met some new friends joining us for lunch ...
You got the Thai as well? Are you enjoying that ? He got the pineapple fried rice.
Oh my goodness
please enjoy it - thank you!
That looks amazing!
All i'm going to say is that this smug face
is because i chose the freshly made pizza,
and it smells like i'm in an authentic Italian restaurant!
It smells delicious ...
I've got artichokes hearts, peppers, aubergine and i've got caramelised onions!
I've got some little crushed chilli flakes there,
but the dough - look at that! It's so firm and crunchy and crispy and thin! Just the way i love it!
Happy wife, happy life!
That's what i say!
Perfect with just enough garlic
that is lush!
I got some strawberry cakes doughnut, and Chris ... what happened was
Marianne went up and asked if they got tiramisu on the menu at this pizza place,
and he said i'm very sorry, we've run out of tiramisu!
So what does the guy do?
He jumps into his car, he drives across town to his restaurant, he gets a portion of tiramisu,
and is even on a plate with two forks!
This man not only has great service, but knows how to make a man's wife happy!
There's two forks!
Oh my goodness look at that!
layers and layers of loveliness!
that
is as good as any tiramisu i've had!
Even as good as your mothers?
Mum you've got some competition there!
Thank you so much, that was amazing!
After that fantastic lunch and talking far too much!
We're now heading out of town and to a friend's house about an hour's North of Santa Fe.
So the last couple of days we've been having great fun!
We've been boon-docking with a friend - Ariana's mother-in-law.
Hi Ariana - see you soon so!
Flo is actually an artist,
yeah it's unusual i've never seen a cactus made out of glass before.
Yeah they're unusual,
and it's like they got like glass these spikes are made of glass.
So i blow the flowers in the body,
and then i put the silicone glue,
Yeah and i put it on and you oh these are all individually stuck on?
And then I sit and stick these on!
Oh my god goodness, i'm very happy with these pieces, and this is beautiful career and a great life.
Flo (who is lovely!) who's been looking after us here in New Mexico,
and so we're going to give her the honour of sticking the New Mexico flag on the van!
There you go - yay!
Thank you, that's amazing! absolutely wonderful!
Well come back! Oh we'll be back,
and we're going to do a road trip!
Yeah i'm going to meet them in Baja!
There you go, we're going to make it happen!
So Arizona we did tombstone, and it was an incredible place that was worth it!
There you go Arizona!
We've got nice blue skies this morning,
you'll see that the smoke from the fire behind us is obviously going in a different direction,
but the fires are still going on,
today we are heading north we're continuing our adventure north,
and it's time to hit the road again my sweet,
let's hit the road!
Why you got your mask on love?
It's really dusty i'm really struggling there's been lots of tree pollen and dust,
and i'm struggling with it!
It's bad on the sinuses!
One thing we found Arizona and New Mexico the dust that gets in your nose,
does make you feel very sinus pain.
Open and free!
So this is where we stopped at ...
The classical gas museum in Embudo New Mexico.
It's open, it's free,
it's got rusty stuff, shiny stuff and damn fine stuff!
So i've come down to the rusty stuff, these are the older bits that need restoring
look at these old pumps here, can you imagine seeing gas pumps like that?
I don't think i've ever seen a gas pump like that before?
and this is what they would have looked like newer,
look the gas you would have seen it in the top in this glass container here.
It's a really fun and quirky place to come and have a little look around!
Oh that made me jump i thought that was somebody stood there!
It really is one of those really cool places just full of fun stuff!
Oh look they've got lots of little toy cars here
somebody from Roswell!
The place is so big i've actually lost Marianne she's here somewhere!
I lost you!
You lost me because he said in there there's the shiny stuff!
The really lovely stuff, is it nice?
Let's go and have a look! It is beautiful ....
It's so colourful and bright!
Oh wow look at this...
this is so different from out the back.
These are the bits he's restored, oh my goodness!
What a fantastic place!
How colourful is this ... it's all lit up!
So we've had the pleasure of meeting Johnny the owner,
nice to meet you sir!
Yes thank you very much.
Can you please approach him in the proper title please ....
Sir John of Norfolk!
He was actually explaining to us that he spent some time as a kid in the UK,
And went to one of the May Day festivals, had a a bow and arrow contest,
shot his arrow the furthest and was knighted by the queen of the May Day festival.
I'm sure you're a legend in the UK in Norfolk.
Everybody in Norfolk should know this man!
Yeah that damn American won the Robin Hood contest !
How long have you been collecting all these wonderful things for?
30 years.
And what started that ? I started hearing voices in my head and they wouldn't shut up!
That's great - that's why i started travelling!
Johnny was explaining that his superb collection has actually been rented out to movie companies ....
Many movies uh some that you may have heard of, No country for old men,
and then a very popular comedy called wild hogs - Oh i love wild hogs!
I rented gas pumps for that movie - oh gas pumps,
that's amazing,
and look for next year a movie called Oppenheimer,
about the father of the atomic bomb
for the movie they built a complete version 1940s version of Los Alamos where the bomb was invented!
and of course when they built this 1940s town they needed a gas station
so who do you think they come to talk to? sir John of Norfolk! I love that!
That's fantastic, i love that!
I also love the fact that you saw things going rusty and you saw parts of maybe your history or your childhood and you actually wanted to protect it and conserve it.
That's part of my motivation is it represents a interesting part of our history,
and the other thing think about 30 years from now ..... all cars are going to be electric.
We had we had that conversation on the way here,
when we saw you online.
We said that yeah - this will become more obscure yes absolutely!
People will say - cars used to run off gasoline! really?
Yeah yeah fantastic,
Oh very forward thinking.
There is a British man, who has started the dull men's club - the dull men's club?
I love that!
So in Great Britain
and he's come over to the United States in documenting the dullest people in America
i was judged by the dull mens club to be one of the 12 dullest people in America!
I don't agree with that we've had great fun here this morning!
What a fantastic guy - i really really enjoyed that.
Definitely stop by if you're driving up in northern New Mexico to Taos.
Wow we just come over the top of the hill look at this view it's just completely opened up
you can see the Rio Grande River Canyon there look, we're going to be driving around there,
mountains - there's snow on the top!
So we're just coming through the city of Taos,
and we could not come through without showing you how pretty this little town is!
It's very nice they've got all these like
mud-styled buildings - adobe.
Okay quick pit stop we've stopped off at the post office
thank you very much everybody for buying our sticker packs!
If you want a sticker pack then they're available on the website - www.treadtheglobe.com
They sometimes take a while to get there because we post them from wherever we are
and we're not always by a post office, so for those of you that have been waiting for your stickers
they're coming! They're coming - sorry it took so long!
Look at the size of that moth
It's a moth or a butterfly? look at that!
Our first American post office and it was a little bit confusing
she didn't have the stamps for the international post,
they don't frank them over here like we do back home, so that was a bit confusing.
"yes but i need to see because they're smaller so they might need additional because they're too small"
and then she said we had to have a return address on each envelope - and of course we haven't got an address!
In the end it worked, they just they just did it anyway - but i think we definitely confused her,
and having so many sticker packs to so many different countries -
i don't think
i don't think they're used to that - but anyway there you go.
Just driving down here the houses are very very unusual for us,
they look uh .... i don't know?
What do they look like? they're just unusual
Star wars Marianne saying, Mexican movie maybe?
So right next to the that very cool looking bridge that we've just gone over,
is this little rest stop
so we figured we would come and spend the night ....
wow look at that so we're going to find a spot
literally just round the corner here,
I think we should be at a park flat.
What a fantastic place to park up,
the sun's just starting to go down it's golden hour now it's a perfect opportunity i think to go and have a look at the bridge.
There's not many views like that is there?
Talking to the guard he actually told us that they put gates up because people have accidental falls off this area here,
but this bridge unfortunately is also known in the local area as the suicide bridge ...
What an amazing place,
it's not necessarily the structure of the bridge that's amazing
it's that view!
Wow it is so high,
I think the the guard said it was 650 feet.
Oh there you go they've got a crisis hotline there
in case anybody has any crazy ideas,
but oh my goodness look how far down that is ...
Just to put it into perspective that's the canyon and that's where Trudy is,
the sun's just going down,
Oh what a fantastic day, and a perfect spot !
and what a perfect ending to a perfect day! That's it.