Day 5 Sante Fe, New Mexico pop. 74,000

We are again in another state, this time New Mexico!   Sunny and nice with very cool evenings!  Deb is out waiting for the AAA guy to come and change our flat tire and Karen is upstairs doing wash and I am alone, trying to remember what we did today!  All I remember is that it has been great fun!  Outside of Amarillo, there are 10 old cadillacs buried nose down in a field.  People come out and spray paint them so really very colorful.  I am having difficulty posting pictures tonight so not sure I can get it working.  There was a quick trip to an old hardware store in some town.  Really the next thing I remember is stopping at Adrian NM, the half way point from Chicago to Santa Monica.   It really isn't 1/2 way for us because we started in St. Louis.  We took a couple side trips including a gravel road that looked like it went to no where but we found some longhorn cattle and what looked like a prong horn deer.  Otherwise there hasn't been much in the way of wildlife, except for maybe us ;)   We rolled into Sante Fe and despite my concern that we may have to sleep in the van because of the Balloon Festival in Albuquerque, we found a really nice place for a decent price.  Did some Goodwill shopping (I stayed in the car, imagine that!!) and bead store, walked the downtown square of Santa Fe before going to Tomatista, recommended by Triple D!  It was then that the tire pressure light came on and while Deb waited for our table, Karen and I went to find a pressure gauge and air pump.  After 3 gas stations and a guy asking to give him money to get a hotel, we found the low tire, put in air and made it the restaurant in time for some delicious Mexican fare!    Karen and I are hoping to leave by 4:30 a.m. to watch the dawn take off of the hot air balloons in Albuquerque, get a new rental van and then run back to get Deb who opted out of this activity.