Two Casitas Vacation Rentals – Our Santa Fe Blog

Ah, luxury.  We all love it, and we all crave it from time to time. Traveling to Santa Fe is a treat in itself, but add to that the luxury of an amazing home above Canyon Road, and you’ll be surprised at how easily you adjust to living like a rock star. I recently had out of town guests who needed a place to stay for three nights. They were some of my oldest friends traveling with their college-age son, and I wanted to give them an extra special treat. So, of course, I called Wendy at Two Casitas and  [ Read More ]

Artist or art collector?  Whichever you claim to be, Santa Fe is the place to spend a weekend, or if you’re lucky, a lifetime, making art.  Or collecting it.  Santa Fe, despite its small population (68,000) is the fourth largest art market in the United States behind New York, L.A. and San Francisco. If you’re an artist, whether accomplished or aspiring, you’ll be drawn to the amazingly blue and seemingly endless sky as well as the austerely stunning landscape of both desert and mountains.  You’ll want to attend one of the dozens of workshops held at Santa Fe Creative Tourism,  [ Read More ]

Sometimes you just have to tout the amazing place where you live.  And where you hope everyone will visit.  That’s how we came up with this post. Santa Fe. It’s the place where you can indulge every whim, whether it’s spending Christmas Eve wandering Canyon Road galleries, amidst farolitos and little bonfires while a light snow dusts adobe walls, or dancing to local musicians on the Plaza on a summer evening.  It’s Saturday morning strolling the popular Farmer’s Market at the Santa Fe Railyard, picking through heirloom tomatoes and freshly roasted green chile. It’s outdoor fun – hitting the slopes  [ Read More ]

At Two Casitas, we obviously love Santa Fe.  We’ve made it our bread and butter, providing luxury vacation homes for countless visitors to the City Different.  We want everyone to have an authentic Santa Fe experience.  And if you ask us, the early months of each year are the perfect time to hang with the locals and get a true taste of what it means to live here full time. It’s that time of year again, with January, February and March being those magical winter months when you’re presented with the chance to beat the summer crowds and hang out  [ Read More ]

  I had a great Santa Fe Thanksgiving last week, filled with smoked turkey and garlic-mashed potatoes and cranberry salsa and dozens of other dishes, surrounded by family and friends and a few babies.  The weather was Santa Fe perfect – slightly crisp out, but warm enough to be on the patio with a fire in the firepit.  A couple of guests brought guitars and we sat in the dwindling daylight before the fire and listened to ballads played by the musicians while the babies fell asleep in various laps.  A perfect day, really. But with all those guests, I  [ Read More ]

We love to check out Santafe.com for their continual coverage of what’s happening and what’s hip in Santa Fe, and today’s article on the spookiness that occurs  is no exception.  Lynn White has put together a great post on ghosts and scary places to visit in our city. . .if you’re not afraid of a few things that go bump in the night. Check it out at http://www.santafe.com/article/spooky-santa-fe1. The most famous apparition that I know of is the ghost of Julia Staab who lives at La Posada and has been known to float around Room 101 (her former bedroom) and the  [ Read More ]

If you’re like me, you love to wander up Canyon Road in Santa Fe, strolling through galleries, admiring gardens, sitting on benches, admiring sculptures.  But also, if you’re like me, you secretly wish you could rub elbows with the artists, get to know them personally, even if just for a minute or two, and watch them in the process of creating their amazing art. Mother’s Day weekend will be the perfect opportunity to do exactly that – hang with the Canyon Road artists, watch them at work, and then have the chance to bid on your favorite pieces immediately after  [ Read More ]

I’ve been going to Canyon Road since my childhood, when my Aunt Margaret led me there on a wintry Christmas Eve to view the farolitos and visit with one of her Santa Fe neighbors.  I love it still – the galleries, the sculpture, the narrow street, the restaurants and patios.  I love the general feel of Santa Fe history mixed with the excitement of creativity. But I never took the time to learn the history of Canyon Road.  Quite a confession from someone with a history degree, but I unjustly assumed it had always been sort of a chichi fancy  [ Read More ]

One of the absolute best things about going to Santa Fe is the eating.  I agree that it’s not the only thing worthwhile about visiting – there’s the Opera and the Lensic and the Georgia O’Keefe Museum and the Plaza and the Railyard and the hiking and the skiing and Ten Thousand Waves and music at El Farol on a Saturday night. . . There are a lot of good reasons to visit Santa Fe. But the food. . .just thinking about the amazing food we eat when we’re there makes my mouth water. I love a great breakfast. In fact one  [ Read More ]

Springtime in Santa Fe.  Forsythias blooming on side streets, sunshine on Canyon Road patio bars in the early afternoon, high school kids playing hacky sack on the plaza, Georgia O’Keefe poppies in front yards, hiking at Bandelier National Monument . . .It’s an amazing time to be in the Capitol city, and I was fortunate enough to spend the first weekend of spring at Wendy Kapp’s Mariposa, one of Two Casita’s two bedroom homes. It’s a recurring theme in what I write here, but this weekend really brought home the fact that if you choose to stay in a hotel,  [ Read More ]