October 19th, 2006.

We stayed in Carol's beautiful adobe house in Madrid, about 30 minutes south of Santa Fe. The above picture was taken during the sunset on our way there. Madrid is a small town where the dogs rule and are known to charge cars. For our morning run we whistled by the pioneer cemetery atop a most gorgeous mesa. No photos of that... The camera lens was too sweaty.

In the evening, we had the privilege of seeing some of the finest musicians on the planet. Robby and Char Rothschild went to the college with me many moons and suns ago, and if I was impressed by them then, it can't compare with how bewildered I am by them now. This is a picture of Char playing the accordian and, yes, the trumpet at the SAME TIME. Later he decided to play the accordian and the gaida (a kind of bagpipe - think of a little goat), again, at the same time. And he was brilliant at it. During the break he even asked me if I had seen anybody in Portland do that. NO. What a feat. This is a picture of the ever-facile drummer Robby switching up instruments and playing the kora. These two have never been happy with just one or two or five instruments. Check them out at www.roundmountainmusic.com