Santa Fe

Nobody's ever going to find them.

And it's very comparable on the ride from Santa Fe to the ride to Stanley where Zorro Ranch is.

It's a very similar landscape.

So, you know, that was one thing that was crossing... that crossed my mind for sure when I was driving down to Zorro Ranch.

So it was really important for me to leave and recenter myself.

And I, I went back to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I'm from, and I told my parents I knew I needed to find the longest wilderness course I could possibly find.

I just needed to get my butt kicked and realign myself and just remember who I was outside of all this other external stuff.

And, you know, careful what you wish for.

EL SOLITARIO,

THE HERMIT PRIEST OF THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL No stream from its source flows seaward, how lonely soe'er its course, but some land is gladdened.

No star ever rose and set without influence somewhere.

Who knows what earth needs from earth's lowliest creatures? No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

name is revered

only a degree less than that of the tutelary saint of the country our lady of guadalupe on certain feast days particularly in

midsummer large fires are kept burning at night and the devotees to the memory of the cave's once holy occupant long since hastened by the hands of an assassin to the unknown beyond a symbol there under the stars and in a most devout spirit perform certain ceremonies with a zeal possible only to the earnest believers in that ancient and widely disseminated faith the catholic religion of the history of this remarkable man who by his exemplary life made such an impression upon the untutored minds of a large number of the degraded primitive new mexicans but fragmentary leaves have been obtainable to intelligently understand even these the reader must let his mind drift backward for more than a generation to the plains of central kansas and learn of his advent into the state as i recall it it was late in the spring of eighteen sixty one our civil war had been inaugurated by the firing upon sumter and the loyal states were preparing for the great impending struggle upon the result of which depended the destiny of the republic kansas at that time so far as its agricultural possibilities were concerned was not materially considered in that connection it was a remote relatively unknown territory it is true its eastern portion a narrow belt contiguous to missouri had a bloody political history beyond which fact it was merely the portal to the vast mountain region on the west to be reached only by crossing the desert supposed to be included within the new state's geographical limits through which ran the trail to far-off santa fe and chihuahua there arrived one morning in the busy little hamlet of council grove morris county kansas during the month of may a strange mysterious person he attracted much attention for he was to the denizens of that remote frontier town as curious a personage as the man in the iron mask or the awkward caspar hauser whose appearance at the gates of nuremberg once startled the good people of that staid and quiet town or with the conservatism of centuries the stranger who came so unexpectedly to council grove in the spring of eighteen sixty one evidently a priest talked but little it was an exceedingly difficult task to engage him in conversation so profoundly did he seem impressed with the idea of some impending danger he acted like a startled deer ever on the alert for an expected enemy and weeks rolled by before two or three of the town's most reputable citizens could gain his confidence sufficiently to learn from him something of his varied and romantic history in a simple sketch as this is intended to be only nothing but a mere outline of his chequered life previous to his advent in america can be presented as it was gathered very reluctantly on his part in detached fragments at odd moments in his erratic moods of communicativeness it certainly contains enough of pathos suffering and tragedy to form the web of a thrilling novel matteo boccalini at the date of his appearance in council grove was about fifty-five years old he possessed the eye of an artist a head that was beautifully symmetrical with a classically moulded face and notwithstanding his age his hair of which he had a profusion was long black and lustrous as a raven's wing yet the heart-sorrows he had experienced were indelibly impressed upon his benevolent countenance in deeply marked lines he was a lineal descendant of trajano boccalini the witty italian satirist author of the celebrated raguli di pazzano who died in venice in sixteen eighteen matteo was born about the beginning of the present century in capri that charming and most romantic island of italy situated in the mediterranean at the entrance to the bay of naples twenty miles south of the beautiful city whose name the bright waters bear his youth was passed on the island

in the city of capri the seat of a bishopric there he received his early education devoting himself to the church

Well, this time I'm the one on the road, and you're at home, so it's a little backwards than usual.

But I'm in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the NARM Conference, the National Association of Rural Mental Health, and I just joined their board.

So I'm looking forward to getting into trouble and seeing what all people I can meet and things I can contribute.

But before we do that, it's raining here, like flash flood type raining.

So they're already talking about they don't like it.

They're going to go back so they can have more people speaking next year.

But So this one's in Santa Fe.

But for those who don't know, Brent and I got married, met and married in New Mexico.

What is that, sir?

Yeah, so as everyone knows, I've been driving from Santa Fe to Las Cruces, which is about a three-and-a-half-hour drive.

And I did something that I don't normally do, but I went through a drive-thru and got me some dinner and ate as I went.

So as I'm traveling, do you guys do that? And if you do, where would you go, I guess? Okay.

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All right, Luke.

You can find me on LinkedIn and Santa Fe Boutique Wines on Instagram.

All right, Justine.

told you not to ask especially today i'll be fine jesus man god

man that's weird this weather i mean this this crap ain't i mean today's fine this crap ain't normal four corners underwater freaking tornado in santa fe

yeah i woke up to read that was very weird

and somebody died up there too man i guess in arroyo it was all really yeah it's bad it was really bad up there and uh Yeah, and this is just the beginning of the Super El Nino.

I think the phrase is, you know, local, not native.

Ah, yeah, there you go.

So you know what happened down here in the Four Corners area and northern New Mexico, Santa Fe, all over.

So Pagosa was horrible, too.

Welcome to Conversations Different, a podcast from the Santa Fe, New Mexican about interesting people, places, and issues of Northern New Mexico.

This is Inez Russell-Gomez, and today we are speaking with Cheryl Alters-Jameson, a noted cookbook author and chef and expert on all things barbecue.

Welcome, Cheryl.

We are back with Conversations Different, talking to Cheryl Alters-Jameson, who was letting us in on her great food tour coming up to Europe.

But before she was planning the tour, she was busy writing cookbooks.

And these two cookbooks are related to restaurants, one in Texas and one beloved right here in Santa Fe.

And I have to tell you, when I saw the photos of you at the Perini Ranch showing the food that was going to be in the cookbook, I was just like transported and full of envy, honestly, because when people say, where do you get a good chicken fried steak in Santa Fe? I always say drive to Texas.

You know, that's just not what we do.

Meanwhile, floodwaters have overwhelmed parts of the local sewer system, prompting a precautionary boil water advisory.

The damage extends beyond Cibola County, with heavy rainfall causing widespread flooding in the Four Corners region, while tornadoes touch down in areas including Santa Fe.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and New Mexico National Guard officials are expected to survey the damage in San Juan County.

Forecasters say drier weather over the next several days should give communities an opportunity to assess the destruction and begin recovery efforts.