It's going to be hard to say goodbye to Santa Fe and New Mexico

Santa Fe means "Holy Faith" and the whole footprint of this state, and the town in particular, is explicitly Catholic. The streets are named "Saint Michael" and "Saint Francis" and "Guadalupe" and the entire town has that Latin-American Adobe Catholic mission look. Even the hotel I stayed in was no exception.

Catholic churches, shrines and sacred places everywhere.

I am certainly not naive enough to believe that everyone who lives here is a practicing Catholic but the life of the Latin American Catholic church is alive and vibrant.

Tonight, I was blessed to attend Mass at Saint Anne Catholic church. I will not forget the experience. I hear many Catholic churches ring the bells. Not many ring Ave Maria.

A lot of packing, a little bit of sleeping and a lot of driving stand between me and the next destination on the docket. El Paso, Texas, here I come!