Gary -
Thanks for the check-in, I think we have only met in-person once,
probably Bios Era, but your steady if infrequent voice here and exotic
context is a meaningful element of the FriAM culture.
You are right about the New Baking Co. I'm not a regular there but
probably visited once a year back in the "old days" and continue to drop
in roughly as often under the new operation... it feels mostly unchanged
to me and always welcoming.
My 14 year old granddaughter just got diverted to Costa Rica from an
otherwise Ecuador-targeted school trip next week. The reason implied
"heightened military activity" in Ecuador? I haven't followed up. Any
reports as a "native"?
You might remember my brief flirtation with expatriation mid-2010s when
I asked you about your experience in Ecuador (including what is
effectively "early retirement') but a lot of water has flowed under all
of our bridges in the past 10+ years (nod to MAGAfied 'Murrica). I've
many colleagues who have toyed with expatriation in 2017 and then 2025
based on the political implications and feelings of complicity, but most
never acted on it and a few have redoubled their courage to "stay in
place and fight the good fight" (or just grind through?).
I myself have flirted with the same of late as LANL (just up the
road/watershed from me) went to full-time pit-production and increased
employment (creating more commute pressure right past my house at Otowi
bridge) and then AI/Data-Center growth demanding more groundwater use in
an already drought-stricken region with limited water resources. Not to
mention Chromium Hexavalent plumage. But inertia is a good enough
reason to stay somewhat high-centered in place. And like my
aforementioned colleagues, I'm loathe to abandon my "homeland" to the
bullies too easily. Or maybe all I can honestly imagine is watching the
steam bubbles rise around me as I become the proverbial frog too
nonplussed to be bothered to exhibit the frying-pan-cum-fire behaviour?
On the other hand, my granddaughter's diversion to Costa Rica is
"convenient" as her parents (my daughter) is looking to CR as their own
fantasy early-retirement escape in a few years. They will be early 50s
when the nest empties and they might or might not be prepared to feather
a new nest where the $US goes further and the immediate concerns of our
nonsense at home is a little less ever present. Lots of reasons to
believe the medium and long-term fallout of humanity's worst behaviour
might land on places like CR or Panama or Ecuador even heavier of
course. Escape the fallout or avoid generating too much of your own?
By then, maybe there will not be any jet fuel left and they will have
to trek there with a two-wheel cart LDS-style?
I know we have a (large) handful of non_NM and non-US folks here with
some parallax from afar (SA, Germany, Australia, India all come to mind)
and many here are much more well traveled and connected than I am so
have yet another suite of parallax views on the world in this new era
(fascism rising, now maybe waning? Space, AI, Fossil-Fuel, autonomous
warmaking ??? accelerationism?)
I keep hoping this forum will erupt (yet more) with some
reports/speculation on those broadly relevant, acutely changing
challenges/opportunities?
- Steve
On 5/29/26 11:54 am, Gary Schiltz wrote:
Darn, I keep forgetting the Thursday Zoom. One of these days...
I'm not in Santa Fe, but I was intrigued by "New Baking Company" on
Cordova street. I assume it is the same place (but different
management) that used to be the Santa Fe Baking Company in the 2000s?
The pictures on TripAdvisor would suggest that it is. There was only
one review, and it said something like "everything bad, except maybe
the iced coffee". If that's true, it's very sad. Back in 1999-2008
when we lived there, it was Karen's and my favorite lunch spot in
Santa Fe.
An anecdote for posterity: we moved to Ecuador from NM in 2008, and I
really missed Santa Fe. On our only trip back to the US since, in
2012, we went to Santa Fe for a visit. I attended an in-person FRIAM
(in the Railyard that Friday) and was glad to see some of the old
gang. Karen and I went to Santa Fe Baking Company for lunch, and the
owner, Steve, waited on me at the counter. Despite my being away for
over four years, he greeted me with "Hi Gary, what can I do for you?".
I choked up with emotion and had a hard time speaking. I really felt
at home there. I'm sad that he (and his brother, I believe) no longer
run it. I also remember that a Santa Fe radio station broadcasted live
from there, one morning each week. I don't remember the host's name -
a pleasant lady that I once spoke with briefly after her show.
Gary Schiltz
Mindo, Ecuador
[email protected]
On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 12:51 PM Gary Schiltz <[email protected]> wrote:
Darn, I keep forgetting the Thursday Zoom. One of these days...
I'm not in Santa Fe, but I was intrigued by "New Baking Company" on
Cordova street. I assume it is the same place (but different
management) that used to be the Santa Fe Baking Company in the 2000s?
The pictures on TripAdvisor would suggest that it is. There was only
one review, and it said something like "everything bad, except maybe
the iced coffee". If that's true, it's very sad. Back in 1999-2008
when we lived there, it was Karen's and my favorite lunch spot in
Santa Fe.
An anecdote for posterity: we moved to Ecuador from NM in 2008, and I
really missed Santa Fe. On our only trip back to the US since, in
2012, we went to Santa Fe for a visit. I attended an in-person FRIAM
(in the Railyard that Friday) and was glad to see some of the old
gang. Karen and I went to Santa Fe Baking Company for lunch, and the
owner, Steve, waited on me at the counter. Despite my being away for
over four years, he greeted me with "Hi Gary, what can I do for you?".
I choked up with emotion and had a hard time speaking. I really felt
at home there. I'm sad that he (and his brother, I believe) no longer
run it. I also remember that a Santa Fe radio station broadcasted live
from there, one morning each week. I don't remember the host's name -
a pleasant lady that I once spoke with briefly after her show.
Gary Schiltz
Mindo, Ecuador
[email protected]
On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 10:49 AM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote:
Let's meet at New Baking Company on Cordova.
Frank Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918
Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2
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