Travel Bug Coffee Shop

09/03/2026

September, 12 at 5pm
Santa Fe is often described in visual shorthand: adobe or stucco walls, muted earth colors, and "Santa Fe Style." But the City's identity was taking shape long before the style gained a name. Drawing on his recent Santa Fe New Mexican essay, author, urbanist, and photographer Charles R. Wolfe will explore the deeper sources of a city's character—in the case from the landscape and Indigenous and Hispanic traditions to the Salinas Pueblo Missions, streets, acequias, public life, and patterns of adaptation.
Using ideas and images from his three books—Urbanism Without Effort, Seeing the Better City and Sustaining a City's Culture and Character—Wolfe will also show how to more generally read the "DNA" of cities: the inherited qualities, everyday practices and visual clues that make a place distinctive. He will also summarize his "Leveraging Place" approach, asking how Santa Fe can welcome change while preserving continuity, cultural memory and the qualities that make it more than a marketable style.

08/31/2026

This SATURDAY 9/5 there is NO event!
ZOZOBRA!

08/31/2026

TRAVEL TIPS MONTHLY
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd

This month's meeting will focus on Mexico: beaches, culture, and crafts.
4:30-6pm

Have you traveled to far off, exciting places? Or are you getting ready to embark on a new adventure? Are you interested in issues relating to travel in general, such as budget ideas or personal security? Join us in our new monthly travel discussion group where you can share some of your favorite travel experiences, practical advice, and general travel topics at our monthly meetings.

This discussion group is for people who have visited a particular destination and want to share their experiences or advice and for those seeking tips, advice, and stories relating to international travel. Everyone welcome!

Ken Collins and Rochelle Gerratt will facilitate the meetings. Ken is a frequent presenter at The Travel Bug and a global traveler with a Web site containing practical advice on various destinations. Rochelle has led over 60 domestic and international trips for the Sierra Club and other groups, including her own adventure travel company.

08/31/2026

The Brew to Brew Brevet Rides Again on Sunday, Sept. 27!

The Brew to Brew Brevet is a sociable, mixed-media ride (pavement, gravel and a little trail)! Start at The Travel Bug with a fresh-brewed coffee. Enjoy a ~25 mile ride looping in and around Santa Fe. Return to The Travel Bug for a beverage of your choice ! The route will favor any comfortable, geared bike with sturdy tires in good working condition.

Info and Sign-up at https://www.velonewmexico.org/brew-to-brew-brevet/

08/24/2026

Costa Rica Wildlife & Zip Lines

Judy Costlow
Sat Aug 29 at 5pm

Costa Rica, a democracy with no army, an environmental watchdog and a land that welcomes immigrants to build a new life there. I got to spend two weeks in this amazing place seeing it from zip lines, rafts, and by foot seeing birds, frogs(hundreds), water creatures and air borne monkeys and my favorite-SLOTHS!!! Join me on this expedition!

08/18/2026

Support Travel Bug—Shop Local

Looking for your next great travel book, guidebook, novel, or gift? You can support Travel Bug while shopping online through Bookshop.org!

When you shop through our Travel Bug Bookshop.org page, your purchase helps support our independent local bookstore—so you can enjoy the convenience of online shopping while keeping your dollars connected to our Santa Fe community.

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An Independent locally owned travel specialty store in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Located due east of the plaza in the oldest part of Santa Fe. We carry a curated selection of general interest books, local and international maps guides, globes, Luggage (Briggs & Riley, Eagle Creek, Thule ), Scotteves...

08/18/2026

Children of the Wild by Kevin Powers Tuesday Sept 1 at 6 pm

MEET IN STORE

Ewer’s Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restless, eager to leave this isolated rural valley for university and return with the technical knowledge to modernize his family’s farm and bring them properly into the twentieth century. Samantha Hatton, the minister’s daughter and Roy’s best friend since childhood, knows that both Roy and the town expect them to marry. But Samantha, a daring and ambitious young woman, hungers for more. Above them on the mountain, tending to a lost herd of cattle, is silent Ennis Duke, the mysterious wild boy whose arrival in the valley will upend Ewer’s Rock’s understanding of itself and its place in the world. Within a year, the lives of these three young people will be dramatically transformed. America has joined the Great War, and Roy and Ennis feel duty-bound to join the fight. In the crucible of conflict, thousands of miles from the familiarity of home, the two men forge a fierce bond. Meanwhile, back in Virginia, Samantha’s love and courage endure unthinkable sacrifice in a corner of the world fractured by violence..

08/17/2026

Saturday, August 22 at 5pm

Adventure is Knocking and New Travel is beckoning. Join Athena Christodoulou and Cheryl Romero on a journey from Albuquerque to Canada and the far, far Northeast United States. Discover the joys of electric vehicle travel. For the intrepid and the timid. Seeing our beautiful country from mountain to the shoreline will inspire a love of our lands. The journey included three national parks, three monasteries and spanned over 5000 miles driven. It ranged from a precise travel itinerary to "stop and explore as you like." Athena is an award-winning Tesla driver and Cheryl an intrepid and detail oriented travel planner.

08/12/2026

NO SLIDESHOW Sat Aug 15 CANCELED No Event due to Indian Market-see you next week!
(Tunisia show moved to October 17th)