After nearly two decades in the Bay Area—much of that time on the coast, where one season looks a lot like another—it’s a big change living someplace with a more variable climate.

This is our second March in Santa Fe, and we’re realizing that local meteorologists really have their work cut out for them this time of year. It’s not so much “in like a lion, out like a lamb” as it is “lions and lambs chasing each other back and forth all month long.” Late last week it was in the low 60s. On Sunday we got a couple inches of snow. And now, two days later, it’s all sunshine and shirtsleeves again.

Our next big ramble (across Texas to New Orleans and back) starts in less than a month. I had planned to bring our camp trailer in for its annual maintenance yesterday, but with the melting snow and chilly breeze our mechanic requested that we postpone until Thursday. Right now the forecast is calling for lambs all week, but I know those lions can show up anytime, so we’ll see.

This week’s video takes a look at a local landmark that terrified drivers between Santa Fe and Albuquerque for years: La Bajada Hill—a somewhat redundant name, since “bajada” is Spanish for “descent,” but it does reinforce the steepness of the slope!