This morning Alicia was chairing a Crop Walk* organizational meeting and Greg had to attend a church meeting on child safety during church events (dont want the Lutherans following in the Catholics’ footsteps) so I stopped at the Flying Star Cafe and ate one of their exceptionally good English muffins then headed to the Sandia Peak Tramway, “The World’s Longest Aerial Tramway.” It’s NOT for people afraid of heights, like my dear mother, but is quite spectacular. In the fifteen minute ride, you traverse four climactic zones (as if going from Mexico to Canada, go from ‘ to 10934’? Elevation and, when you get tot the top on a clear day (and today was a clear day) you can see __________,which, the tour guide says, is 1/9th the area of the whole state of New Mexico.
On the way up,one of the sights pointed out is a CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) cabin (Kiwanis Cabin) that was built during the Depression that’s perched on the very end of a high point that is constructed out of the same material as the rock it sits on, which is a bright, brilliant white. I love works I’ve seen by the CCC, like the cabins at Bastop State Park, so I hiked the mile and a half to get to it and took some photos there and back. En route were some snow drift remains which I climbed through in my purple Crocs as it hadn’t occurred to me that I’d be hiking – another example of the unpreparedness that has characterized this impromptu trip. Ah, well, icy feet felt EXCITING! the cabin was indestructible, with some internal rock benches and two fireplaces. It saddened me a bit, because it wasn’t well maintained – there was a missing guest register for which a place had been specially built and it looked like some metal plaques were missing above the fireplaces. I wondered might they had looked like.
By the time I returned to the Tramway and JUST missed a tram down, it was noon and I was starving. My cellphone had died but I emailed Alicia with my IPad and said I’d treat her to lunch so, when I got back down around 1:30, we went to __________ for stuffed sopapillas. Alicia had bean and cheese and I decided to try the one stuffed with pork marinated in red chilies (). All scrumptious with, of course, a sopapilla and honey for each of us to top it off. From there we headed towards Tent Rock, which you can read about in my next post!
*Crop Walk is a fundraising event chaired this year by Alicia and organized by Albuquerque religious organizations to help alleviate hunger, both locally and internationally. Walkers get money pledges for their four mile walk from a church to a food distribution center called ___________. 2012 is Crop Walk’s thirtieth year and is hoping to raise $30,000. So, when Alicia sends you that email, make a pledge for feeding hungry people!
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