My sister and I just made our annual pilgrimage to Santa Fe for our yearly Soul Revival, and a friend recommended that along with our daily local 'walk-abouts', we should contact a local driving guide who had taken them on a few excursions outside of Santa Fe.
We called Nat Shipman and booked a day trip to Taos and a half day to Bandelier National Park.
These may have been the best tours I have ever taken on a trip!
Nat is a native Santa Fean, and he is a wealth of knowledge, expertise, folksy and interesting stories, and, he makes everything so much fun!
He is articulate, well-traveled, and a natural raconteur, who knows a lot about a lot. I now know more about Santa Fe and New Mexico in general than I have ever learned in the many years I have been visiting. We are both quite inquisitive, and that leads to us asking lots of questions. Not only did Nat not seem to mind, but we never asked him a question he couldn't answer!
I have already referred Nat to some friends who are visiting Santa Fe next month...I hope they contact him right away, because the word is out, and he is always very busy. I can't wait til next year when we head to Santa Fe again - we are already planning our next excursion with Nat.
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