Sudden trip to SantFe and First train journey in NM
At noon, I was playing chess with my neighbor, Fuad bhai and discussing about China bans to Micron. Then suddenly Fuad bhai asked if I have some spare time then I can buy a ticket at riometro for a train journy from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. I wanted to travel Albuquerque rail as it has some fame. I came to know about this rail road from a novel I read titled Southern Abbey written by a New Mexican (forgot the author name). The story was about a girl who started her summer intern at Santa Fe and her experiences through the pueblo style houses and narrow ally by in the Santa Fe.
After buying tickets, Me, Fuad bhai, Hasan bhai, Mehedi bhai, and Saddam bhai all headed our journey to ABQ Downtown by riding ART 777 bus. We landed from bus around 2:00 PM and we waited for our bus. When we were waiting for our train- we suddenly met a Bangladeshi who is doing his PhD at Urbana Champaign Chicago on Quantum Computing. He is going to start his summer internship at Los Alamos National Lab. As I found someone with whom I will be able to chat about quantum computing for about one hour and 10 minutes, I didn't miss the chance. I really enoyed the conversation with him. Although my travel mates tried to satire me but who cares about them?
When the bus reached Santa Fe, first place we visited a Comic Books. Then there was some paintings, art gallery, and immersed ourselves in the Indian Hispanics art style and their tradition.
Whole Santa Fe is timmed with the history of New Mexicans and I really loved the way to try to promote their culture in Hispanic state like NM. Even I wore a cow boy type hat. Then after strolling around the City Plaza, we was looking for a place to eat. We find a restaurant, where I ordered a burrito. It was really good. From city plaza to the restaurant where we took our meal, was about 15 minutes walking distance. It was sunny and chilling weather both. Typically temperature in Santa Fe is quite lower than the Albuquerque city. Hence wandering in the narrow streets while enjoying the bright sky and pueblo style housing in the surrounding was really something one must enjoy. Each time I look at NM sky, I felt that I should do star gazing, the sky is always crystal clear in here.
After having burrito, we felt that we should have a coffee. For that we once returned to city plaza of Santa Fe, and I ordered a Frappuccino, only thing that I can drink in Starbucks. Otherwise Starbucks sucks to me!
Santa Fe is more greener than ABQ city. ABQ will give visitor a perfect feelings of a desert while Santa Fe is surrounded by long trees around the whole city. The city roads are narrow, no bus ply over the roads of Santa Fe. And it is less dense than ABQ while it has a lot of Hispanic traditional buildings, and monuments.
We spend the whole afternoon and evening enjoying the calm, serene, and scenic beauty of Santa Fe. Then we ordered a veggie pizza. When sunsets in the horizon, we had a good gossip and I was feeling this kind of tour has an ever repeating pattern for which we want to visit places after places and make memories for life. When it was darks, street lights turn on whole Santa Fe will become an Old Town of ABQ city. We arrived at rail station for our last train to ABQ. In the train this time I had no one to have a chat about Quantum Computing but Mehedi bhai taught me how to play 29!.
