Santa Fe, redux

Rico says that he and the ladyfriend spent nearly a week in Santa Fe, sightseeing and attending an Angioma Alliance conference (see post below).
Santa Fe no longer looks like it did in 1873, in the period photo above; it's not Los Angeles, sure, but it's a real city now:

The conference was aimed mostly at the local Hispanic population, who have a very high incidence of cavernous angiomas, thanks to their descent from Juan Perez de Bustillo (born in Spain in about 1558) and his wife Maria de la Cruz (also born in Spain in about 1560), who came to the New World with the Juan de Oñate Expedition in 1598.
There were some Castellanos in the mix, too, because one of their descendants (no relation to the ladyfriend) was running for local office:

Rico says he'd been in Santa Fe, years back. It hasn't changed much; the Money Extraction Machine is still running in high gear. The ladyfriend bought him a new cowboy hat (something like the photo, below, only a different color and a different band) from O'Farrell's, so we contributed to the local economy. They're located at 111 East San Francisco Street, so Rico's eleven fetish continues...