October 27, 2022 - we visit the small town of Chimayo, NM and the world famous El Santuario de Chimayo, a small adobe church built over the spot where a shepherd was miraculously cured from an injured leg by spreading the dirt over it. Since then, people from all over the world come to worship at the church and visit the small "Holy Dirt Room" off the left of the altar and scoop up a baggie full of the magic dirt, for which there are many clains of cures. Also, miraculously, after all of that scooping, and for at least 21 years since we first visited in 2002 (see our 2011 photo - the earliest photo we have of the Holy Dirt), the level of the dirt in the hole has not changed!

Cathy & Joe R.