The Tesla post

This was going to be a road trip recap post.

I planned to share photos of some of Santa Fe's better known attractions...

along with a few odds and ends that should appeal to this audience.

I was going to talk about our trip to Meow Wolf...

and the two Eldorados. 

Spoiler alert: they're not interchangeable.

But what I've come to realize is this: No one cares about any of that. All they want to talk about is the car.

I get it. This is a really cool car.

I'd ridden in it before, so I already knew it was a quiet, comfortable ride with good air conditioning and a really cool dashboard/screen.

Still, I was curious to see how it would handle the mountain passes and and what it would be like to drive an electric car through a state filled with big, empty spaces.

I shouldn't have worried.. Karen's Tesla is powerful enough to pull a loaded two horse trailer. Raton Pass was easy peasy.

Charging wasn't a problem either.

The car knows where all the Superchargers are. It tells you how many miles you are from one, and how much charge you'll need to get there. Easy peasy.

Charging times vary depending on how low the battery is and how many other cars are at the charging station. We averaged about twenty minutes per session. We stuck to actual Tesla Supercharger stations because they're the fastest, but we an electric car charging station would have worked, too.

Each charge costs about four or five dollars, which is billed to Karen's account weekly. You can go a little over three hundred ten after per charge.

I really enjoyed traveling in Karen's Tesla. In fact, my only complaint is now I want a Tesla of my own. Thanks a lot, Karen!