My First Hike !!!!!!

We've landed in Santa Fe, and today I had my first hike ever, in the hills called Cerillos, south of here.
Last night I was too tired to write anything, so here's what happened yesterday. Mom and Dad spent the day buying Indian jewelry for their traveling shop "Turquoise Trail Traders." The first stop was a place called Turneys, which only sells wholesale to dealers, and you sit in a booth and they bring boxes full of little paper bags full of jewelry. Mom and Dad pretty much pick out which each one wants and hope that they don't disagree later when they try to sell it.
Anyway I didn't care about that because the Turney folks have dachsunds and although they weren't there that day, it was a dachsund-friendly place and I got to run around! This was great until I had to pee, which I did on a rug in the trading room where the other dachsunds had peed (believe me, we know these things) and then I had to poop, which I did in the Navajo rug room. Fortunately I didn't choose the $12,000 rug (when Mom mentioned the prices, I got pretty nervous ...).
After that we drove down to the town of Zuni, New Mexico, which has many dogs that freely roam the town and I barked at a few of them. Mom and Dad went to different stores and bought a lot of these carvings of animals called "fetishes," which doesn't make a lot of sense to me when for a few more dollars you could have the real animal. These places were not dachsund-friendly so I spent a lot of time in the car watching and barking at the dogs.
Then we drove to our land north of Albuquerque. I didn't even know we had land. It was great! I ran all over. Got a few pricklers in my paws, but never mind. Finally we got to this place that's owned by a friend of ours called Joseph (I just met him today, but we're already friends), which has a kitchen and a bedroom and a cat and is really cool, and the best part is we get to stay here for THREE NIGHTS! so we can all calm down a little from all the driving.
Today we went out today for my first hike, which is something I've never done but I love it already because we went up and down all these pretty hills in the clear air and the sunshine and it made me feel great. We hiked about four miles, which felt like a lot once I got back in the car. Then we went back to our land and had lunch at our picnic table; then back to Santa Fe where Mom did some "sort of" shopping because she was a little tired out, and didn't want to buy much of anything.
Actually tonight we're all kind of tired, and probably going to bed early although Mom and Dad are taking themselves out to dinner at a place called Harry's Roadhouse. I get to stay in the car. That's all right -- I plan on sleeping.
-- Sundance and the Two Banditos