June 19 - Santa Fe NM

Didn’t get very far today but did explore the Tinkertown Museum in Sandia Park NM.  We certainly have never seen anything like it and I’m at a loss as to how to describe it so I’m taking the liberty of copying the explanation from their website.

“It took Ross Ward over 40 years to carve, collect, and lovingly construct what is now Tinkertown Museum. His miniature wood-carved figures were first part of a traveling exhibit, driven to county fairs and carnivals in the 1960s and '70s. Today over 50,000 glass bottles form rambling walls that surround a 22-room museum. Wagon wheels, old fashioned store fronts, and wacky western memorabilia make Tinkertown's exterior as much as a museum as the wonders within. Inside, the magic of animation takes over. The inhabitants of a raucous little western town animate to hilarious life. Under the big top, diminutive circus performers challenge tigers and defy gravity while the Fat Lady fans herself and a polar bear teeters and totters.”

It was a fun experience but then we decided to stay in a motel because the 100 plus degree temperatures were getting to us a bit and we needed a break.  We’re looking forward to going north to Taos and we’ve changed our original plan of following Hwy 40.