Bore trail

Tinkertown welcomes with music

Again at early morning we headed out to drive through the Turqoise Trail that is a national scenic byway running from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. Our first stop was an attraction near Sandia Crest, called Tinkertown where all the diplays have been built by one man. It mostly consists of wooden animated miniature scenes. Tinkertown is a really cool little attraction. At the entrance they have a world map where you place a pin where you're from. I was suprised by the amount of pins pinned on Finland. I also got my character evaluated and prediction made by the mechanical and a bit scary Grandmother Esmeralda. I have to admit she was spot on what comes to my character.

After Tinkertown we continued on the Turqoise Trail but there wasn't really anything to see except for the scenery itself. We arrived the only bigger town on the way, Madrid, and looked at some jewlery shops and then had a lunch at the local cafe, where food was good but a bit on the expensive side. Then we headed on to the next town in the road signs, Cerrillos. It turned out to be a tiny town, only few houses and a mining museum.

Rest of the trail didn't really have anything else but beautiful scenery. So the big hype of the trail, except for Tinkertown, is unfounded, If you only have a few days in the area, don't waste it for the Bore Trail, just go see Tinkertown and turn back.

In the evening we had home made spaghetti for dinner which was a welcome change for all the dinners outside lately,