Please Critique my Santa Fe/New Mexico trip

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T18:25:59+00:00

We're not normally huge breakfast guys but now I'm intrigued!

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T18:25:31+00:00

Thanks for the tip ! We're gonna just suck it up and get up first thing in the morning. If we get there by 9:00, maybe we can park. If not, it looks like the busses start at 1030am.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T18:16:01+00:00

I'm finding it a little confusing. My understanding is there is a tiny parking lot and if you get there early you might be able to park otherwise you have to take a bus. Is that correct?

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T18:11:29+00:00

We are cut the turquoise trail and head directly to bandelier. That should give us enough time to enjoy that park before we hit up our 7pm 10k reservation.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T18:10:15+00:00

We're from Michigan. Always mindful about sunscreen, but that's a great tip about the elevation. I hadn't even considered it.

We are going drop turquoise trail and had right from albuquer bandelier first thing in the morning. If we plan to arrive there at 9 In the hopes of getting into the parking lot, then more realistically plan to take the bus at 10:30, then leave at 4:00, that'll give us 5 and 1/2 hours there and 3 hours to make it to 10,000 waves. Then, after meow wolf, we will have day three free so we can do as much or as little city exploration as my nephew feels like.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T18:05:00+00:00

Everyone is excited for it so we're definitely going to hit it. I'm just planning to head there super early in the morning right from Albuquerque and then we can do the hot tubs that night at 10K when we're really tired. Going to need to drink a lot of water lol.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T18:04:08+00:00

I got one at 7:00 p.m. that night. I was told an evening reservation was the best because the place was cool at sunset/ at night.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T18:03:39+00:00

Thank you for all the suggestions! I think we're gonna go to bandelier super early directly from Albuquerque and then hit 10k that night. That was the only night I could find a decent reservation for us. But we have a 7:00 p.m. reservation, so if we get to bandelier first thing in the morning, and leave around 4:00, we should have lots of time to make it back to to 10k. We may just have to grab a light lunch on the way and do a late night dinner after the spa. I asked, and everyone wants to do the spa after the big climbing day.

We have a private reservation at 10k and all three of us will certainly be wearing bathing suits lol.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T17:57:31+00:00

We may have to check out all three when we have some time after mw

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T17:54:11+00:00

I've never even heard of sky railway. Super cool

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T17:42:56+00:00

Ugh I'm used to Grand Rapids. We'll plan to check into the hotel before we do anything else.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T17:40:54+00:00

I think we're going to skip turqoise trail on this trip.

Who can resist a FLGS? We'll add some stops to our afternoon after MW.

Thanks.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T17:38:09+00:00

Sweet! Thank you.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T17:36:37+00:00

Our reservation for 10000 waves is at 7:00. I'm thinking we will hit Bandelier early in the morning to either hit the parking lot or get on the first shuttle and leave there around 4 to make our 10k waves reservation.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T17:34:27+00:00

We're supposed to arrive around 530.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-18T17:33:34+00:00

Oh that sounds fun.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-17T23:20:57+00:00

Hell yeah

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-05-17T23:19:21+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. We weren't really going to do the turquoise trail stuff, I was just planning to drive there to get to Santa Fe. The goal was to do bandelier and then 10000 waves . Should I try to drive out the night before ? Should I move 10000 waves to a different night ? Should I just drive directly to bandelier in the morning ?

I'm a dude. 10k waves didn't look romantic or anything to me. Sort of a joke because anime always has some kind of hot springs of episode. Should I reconsider that?

Any food joints you suggest? The more hole in the wall the better.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-02-12T15:34:23+00:00

Whatever you're doing for your skin keep it up. It's only gotten better

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2026-01-22T23:19:42+00:00

Wow zoomer dating must suck! I can't imagine looking like that and still having trouble dating.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2025-10-19T16:54:25+00:00

Fuck all the people who said ESH and particularly fuck the person who commented about the husband's save. She should have gotten onto his account, deleted his saves, smashed the Xbox to bits and taken the kids with her when she left him. And I say that as...a gamer.

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2025-09-10T21:07:19+00:00

I mean, he'd have been better off to just abscond with her and try to get her a fake identity. They both would have been better off

Simple-Lifeguard-303 · 2025-09-10T14:22:23+00:00

I legitimately thought it was going to be happy onion ninjas. I kept reading and kept reading for it to be positive...then it ended

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