The Chocolate Maven in Santa Fe

The "Alice in Wonderland" great adventure started with breakfast at the Chocolate Maven and this nice couple from Wisconsin sitting next to me. They were visiting Santa Fe and started talking about "the white place." It wasn't long before half of the restaurant was involved in the discussion. Doesn't the "white place" sound like something that the Jefferson Airplane would sing about?
It turned out to be an off-the-map place that the famous artist Georgia O'Keeffe discovered. It became the subject of many of her paintings.
With directions from the kind couple I set out on an adventure that led to the white place, a Ghost ranch, dinosaurs, Muslim Mosques, a very modernized Benedictine Monastary, and Georgia O'Keefe's home, as well as a host of fascinating people along the way.