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In Santa Fe you might want to pop into Big Adventure Comics and George Martin’s Beastly Books (they are across the street from one another)- both terrific and good for kiddos and adults! Also Taos Cow up here in Taos is a slam dunk for ice cream :)

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Ditto to Meow Wolf and the Folk Art Museum in SF. In ABQ, make sure to eat at Frontier (UNM student hangout) and the lunch counter at Duran’s Central Pharmacy. Both are long-time family favorites. Enchiladas with green chili at Duran’s, make sure kids get a flour tortilla with butter. At Frontier, I like the posole, and oj is fresh-squeezed. Kids must get a cinnamon roll for dessert— they can share one, rolls are gigantic.

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Apr 28Liked by Austin Kleon

For Santa Fe, I highly recommend taking the kids to Meow Wolf. They will absolutely love it there, and I think you will too. The level of creativity of what they put together there is off the charts

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Apr 27Liked by Austin Kleon

If you can handle the sensory overload, I highly recommend Meow Wolf. Also, La Montanita Co-op is a great place to buy groceries, and you can pick up a delicious coffee at Betterday Cafe in the same strip mall. San Marcos Cafe and Feed is a wonderful place to get breakfast and see peacocks. Be sure to order the cinnamon rolls. They are huge so you may want to buy only two to split among the four of you. We also liked eating (and drinking tea) at The Teahouse. If you are concerned about the effects of high altitude, research ibuprofen therapy. I still had high altitude loss of appetite on my most recent visit, but I didn't have high altitude insomnia thanks to the regular doses of ibuprofen that I was taking. The museums are fabulous. On our recent visit, we went to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum which we really enjoyed. Above all, have a wonderful time!

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Apr 27Liked by Austin Kleon

I know people have named lots of museums; the Museum of International Folk Art is a real treat. Incredible, eclectic collections of fun stuff, such as I might aspire to assemble if I had a whole building to put them in!

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Yes! Museum of International Folk Art is really one of a kind. I haven't been there in many years, but will definitely go back when I finally get to Santa Fe again

this fall.

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Check out Mabel Dodge Luhan's house in Taos -- and maybe even stay there. Full of literary history. A shy D.H. Lawrence painted fanciful chickens on the bathroom windows (and I photographed and printed and framed them). Jung was there too when he came to study the "Indian unconscious" in 1925.

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Apr 27Liked by Austin Kleon

My 7th graders (I’m a teacher) love blackout poetry- both doing it and reading your book. This is always what I start poetry month with because it’s approachable (the words are already there) and it upends their idea of what poetry is. Thank you!

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I just taught 3rd graders this week — it was so much fun!

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When my son and I were out visiting friends in Albuquerque many years ago we visited the Manzano Mountains Hawk Watch, and it was VERY cool. Don't know what they're setup is like now, but they had us in one of those little hawk blinds on the side of the mountain and we saw some beautiful raptors. My son was 10, just the right age to be totally blown away by them.

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Santa Fe is my hometown! I would highly recommend Tortilla Flats and Tomasita’s for food. there’s also an amazing spa called 10,000 waves up in the forest. I would highly recommend if you can do that too.

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For a couple of years I hosted a blog on Medium titled the Inperfect Writers of the World. I wanted to give anyone a chance to write without editing issues. I originally started it on Google Plus when I noticed a bunch of people who wrote comments and were criticized over their errors. They would stop writing. So I opened a page called The Imperfect Writers of G+. The rest is history.

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Time Travel: Animal Crossing New Horizons is unlike any time travel I’ve read about. When going back a day, some things are new, some events are paused, some things act like time is going forward.

And then if you go forward again to the day you were on, some things act like the pause has ended, some haven’t.

I would be interested in a story that had less linear time travel elements like this.

My niece got me into ACNH by guiding me through the to-me-boring beginning, but it turned out to be worth it for these elements & some others.

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Game is so good!

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#2 was fun and weird. I was just thinking about that the other day. Maybe because I keep looking for the perfect typwriter.

Pretty sure my head started to cave in like chocolate in the sun, as I heard Alec Guiness' voice roll out that first line of T.S. Elliot's poem. That's going to be replayed as I clean the bathroom today- it will bring beauty to a crappy chore.

Side note: have you watched Ripley on Netflix? I feel like you would appreciate it. It is mesmerizing. Black and white, slow build, suspenseful- irritatingly so, but in the best way possible, if that's a thing?- and the acting by Andrew Scott is chilling and absolutely superb! We have 2 episodes left. It's so well done!

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RIPLEY was the inspiration for “The quick brown fox” item! But im only a few in and I try not to recommend shows until I finish them (been burned a few times that way and felt bad that I might’ve steered folks wrong!)

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WHAT!?!?! Love that! I had forgotten that was in there. I actually felt the same way about recommending it to you. There's always that "hope the ending is done as well as the rest of this" feeling. But I will find out tonight. Fingers crossed. Can't wait to hear what you think!

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Apr 26Liked by Austin Kleon

The Georgia O'Keefe Museum and the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe are always great. The O'Keefe Museum has cool exhibits like her camping gear or her clothes and jewelry — very intimate and rare stuff. Hiking around all the art galleries up Canyon Road is fun — good restaurants to pop into. If you go in September, Santa Fe celebrates Fiestas. It draws in a lot of people from Santa Fe who have moved away — it always feels like a big family reunion at the restaurants, outdoor stuff and events — really lovely vibe and sweet things like local parades, music, etc.

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I can’t believe no one has said Meow Wolf. It’s one of the coolest experimental art installations in the country and would be fun for the whole family with a choose your own adventure like feel, sensory overload and a lot of wonder and awe.

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It’s on our list!

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Oh wait, I see June mentioned it. I’m still thinking about it 7 years later. So touristy or not, it’s a must.

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Apr 26Liked by Austin Kleon

In Albuquerque visit The Rio Grande Nature Center and state park. The tram going up to Sandia Peak is quite an experience and offers an incredible view of the area.

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The Malgudi Days TV show was good and the music excellent.

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