Trying something different

We were in Santa Fe, NM, for the last few days. Our hotel was a couple of blocks away from the Santa Fe Plaza, so we spent a few days there checking out the shops, eating, etc. The main street there is San Francisco St., which runs along the south side of the plaza and has shops on both sides for blocks, so we ended up walking up and down it a few times every day.

Yesterday was our last day there, and we were going to check out the Palace of the Governors and New Mexico History Museum on the north side of the plaza. Instead of taking the usual route, I suggested we take Palace Ave., which forks out of San Francisco a block or two before the plaza and then runs across the north side.

It wasn't really that interesting: we passed by the side of a hotel, a realtor, and the backs of a few buildings. Eventually we came up onto a building next to the New Mexico Museum of Art which had a few galleries in it. One of them was the Chuck Jones Studio Gallery of Santa Fe. As in the motherfucking Chuck Jones, the animator and director of Warner Brothers and greatest hero the world has ever known. His first gallery was in San Diego, but apparently he came to Santa Fe every year to attend the Santa Fe Opera, so he opened up a second gallery there in the '90s.

So we spent 45 minutes in a goddamn wonderland of animation cels and paintings that wasn't in any of our travel guides or maps. And for the rest of the day I was figuring out how much of the gallery I could buy if I sold all of my stuff.



Yeah okay, that's not really an exciting story. Gamingforce, tell me about a time you tried something different and something awesome happened as a result.

Jam it back in, in the dark.