45 min-a little over an hour depending on your transportation methods.

For such big cities, that's really pretty close!
I'll bet from some places in Sante Fe you can even see the balloons up in the air!

there's a train that runs between them. and santa fe is actually a small city. huh, you might be right. I'd like to see if I can see the balloons. probably since santa fe is higher, but the mountains making seeing far in the distance hard.

We took the Sandia Tram to the top of the mountain when we were there.
You could really see far! (But that was in Alburquerque...)

tram? sandia is the name of the shuttle service I used to get between campus and the airport.

Sandia is the name of the mountains to the immediate east of Albuquerque.

I see. that makes sense then. oh right, the sandia crest. I've heard my dad mention that.

It's a big rock outcropping.

I remember I had some roadside geology books that I was using when we made that trip.

It was fun to drive down the road and have the book tell me what I was seeing geological-wise.

cool. I like geology.

*Walks in, covered in pies*

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Hello! im back!

*hands dev a handkerchief*

What kind of pies?
I like cherry pies...

I just love rocks!
I would have done rock as the backsplash, but I gave in and said we'd go glass accents. I have to be happy with the huge granite rocks counters.

...Their cherry pies.. HOW DID JU KNOW? *wipes myself off alittle bit.* *and puts my hat back on* Alwight!

I like rock collecting though I haven't gotten any new rocks in a while.

*flys off to play skyrim* *leaves a note. "OFF TO FIGHT DRAGONS!"

bye dev.

Oh, I like the new avie, Kat!

Very good use of the Yumeh hat!

I have tons of rocks...both regular rocks and some gemstones that I've picked up along the way...

I have a few huge amethyst cathedrals too...

I really wanted to use the hat since I have a similar hat myself.

I have a lot of quartz and its various types. smokey quartz is my favorite. I tend not to like already cut and polished gemstones. I like my rocks natural.

It's a good use of the blue dreadlocks...

I have them all...polished and natural.

yeah. I never use them, but they work with the hat.

I just like looking at crystals I suppose.

I have a really good phantom crystal.

It's quartz crystal that has a crystal growing inside it.
So you have a crystal inside of a crystal... it's something really different.

that's awesome! I want to see that. where do you get these rocks?

I had a little business a few years ago, and I would buy them from different places, wholesale.

I kept the best rocks for myself, and sold the others...

I think I got the crystal from a place called Bitners.

that's cool. I've found a lot of my interesting rocks.

I've never been anywhere where you could find crystals...

Around here we just have limestone...but the limestone doesn't even have any fossils in it.

I've only found one quartz, I think it is anyway. I don't know the difference between quartz and crystal, to me, it looks like it could be either because it is colorless.