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We’re lost. Somewhere between Santa Fe and… well, practically nothing (apart from the border of Utah maybe). We took one wrong turn and rolled on and on for about an hour and a half before we even knew we were no longer on our route. There’s shrubbery everywhere. As far as the eye can see. At least as far as the snow-covered mountains we can make out on the horizon. Shrubbery anyway. There’s no better way to express it. For half an eternity we feel we’re driving along shrubbery. There’s not much forest in the Carson National Forest, as far as we can tell.

We end up in El Rito. Long before we see the first buildings we can see the single white letter “E” painted on a mountain side in the distance. At first glance El Rito has not much to offer than a long winding main street with traditional adobe buildings lined up to the right and left. We make a stop at El Llano Bar. There are two vintage gas pumps in front of it that are – let’s say – in an advanced state of decay. The sign above the door is a little too big and the rivets that keep it in place are amazingly irregularly placed on the wall. It is crooked. At first glance one might take the rivets for bullet holes. They are not. Just rivets.

Continue reading ‘The Green Chile Revelation’

Wir haben uns verfahren. Irgendwo zwischen Santa Fe und… ja, praktisch Nichts, wenn man mal von der Grenze zu Utah absieht. Einmal falsch abgebogen, rollen wir seelenruhig eineinhalb Stunden weiter, bevor wir überhaupt merken, dass wir gar nicht mehr auf unserer Route sind. Rechts und links Gestrüpp. So weit das Auge reicht. Zumindest bis ...