Hatch Chile Festival

We made our way to Hatch, NM today to experience the Hatch Chile Festival. Hatch is just over an hour away along the Rio Grande.

We were told by several people to get the chile burger at Sparkys, that they have the best burgers in New Mexico. They were certainly the best burgers I've had in a long while - Sparkys should be on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives!

Since the line was forming outside of Sparkys when we passed at 11:00, we decided to wait in line, which turned out to be a great choice. The line was easily twice as long when we left as when we arrived.

We then took a stroll through the rest of town and admired the sights and smells - roasting chiles is a distinctive smell, and kind of cool to see how they do it with the large drum roasters.

After a fairly local couple of weeks, it was nice to get out and sample some more of New Mexico.

Cheers,

Marc