This is my first post on my new blog. I'm excited about my new venture into the land of blogging. I have been poking around on different blogs and now I'm just going to do it.
NIDO as you knew it is in the process of changing. The orginial NIDO started with a lot of help from family and friends and got off the ground with the collaboration of graphic designer Christina Hoffman. artjoy2@earthlink.net
I closed my shop in Moss Landing on September 15, 2007 and have spent lots of time in between trying to figure out what direction I want to go in now and what to do with all of the merchandise which I saved. If you had been to NIDO you know I had some pretty special one of a kind things which I had come across in my travels. Now you will be able ( as soon as I get my new site up) to shop on line.
I did take that roadtrip some of you had heard I was going on with my husband Mark, to Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. It was great. We drove Route 66 and really had fun exploring the little old towns along the way. If you haven't been on Route 66 you will be surprised at how the old is still there but may be right next to some fast food place. You get the idea of how it used to be if you squint and try to imagine it without all of the junk.
Chaco Canyon http://www.nps.gov/chcu/was spectacular. We hiked and cooked over the camp fire and had fun doing some drumming (the acoustics were incredible) which actually brought on the rain and surprised us all. We then climbed into a wet tent because the rain flap had blown off in the meantime. When we were driving out we stopped at an authentic trading post where I spent time talking with some friendly Indians. I had told them we had been camping at Chaco and had gotten rained on. They said "you know why that was... there was a big pow wow to bring the rain". I laughed a little and said "oh, we had been drumming ourselves." They got a kick out of that as you can imagine.
