We found a beautiful home outside of Santa Fe, in what you might call the country, or what you might call the desert. However you call it, it means some distance from the neighbors, and quiet, and spectacular views — really, nearly 360 degrees and mountains in most of them. And the stars at night! With 7000 fewer feet of distorting atmosphere, and that crisp dryness of the desert night in what atmosphere there is, and virtually no city light-pollution, it takes the breath away. The milky way is visible to the naked eye. The black is a deeper black, and between the stars you know are sprinkled countless dimmer ones you don’t, and the variations in magnitude produce a sense of depth.
We’re in a smaller space, but paradoxically with a lot more room, and only increasing rent from Jackson rates by about $300, which is about as good as I could have hoped. And we’ll have a guest bedroom, so, friends, you know what that means.
We’re leaving my car and flying back to Jackson Tuesday. Then we pack a truck and move on or around July 1st.
And, coming to New Mexico straight from Mississippi this time (not from California like before), I’ve noticed some additional benefits of the dry air: (1) Getting out of the shower, you dry quicklier, and (2) cold beverages don’t sweat (in MS, they are prone to over-power the most valiant coaster).
I’m jealous.
Congratulations, bon chance and all that stuff.
Thanks.
That sounds pretty sweet. Makes me wonder why I’m spending all this money in a light-polluted urban center. I suspect, however, that the lack of condensation on your beverages is actually helping them warm faster: my Earth Science teacher in ninth grade took great pains to ensure that I remember that “evaporation is a cooling process.”