After waiting for the Econolodge coffee machine to be refilled we headed out onto the road to the sounds 'Oh, We're going to Barbados' by Typically Tropical which summed up how we felt. We were heading to Santa Fe which although not on the last version of Route 66 had been for about 5 minutes in the late twenties. Mer colleague and I had also heard a lot of Santa Fe from Westerns we thought but ultimately knew nothing about the place. Ade was driving and an ...

We set off reasonably early into downtown Gallup looking for a strong coffee and quickly found a cafe that appeared to be exclusively populated by Native Americans. Were they escaping, infiltrating or simply following us?Mer college suggested that they were probably using it as a local cafe and that they lived in Gallup. On the lack of evidence of weapons and spying gear I was happy to take his comments on board. We both felt it was high time to start looking fo...