Former Santa Fe concierge Dené Canon has launched a new business, Enchanted Journeys de Santa Fe, a premier transportation company that will offer destinations all over Northern New Mexico.

"We offer reliable, secure and safe transportation in a comfortable private vehicle for up to four people," Canon said in an e-mail. "Our drivers are fully licensed and insured and have perfect driving records."

In addition, "I met all the qualifications for the (state) Public Regulation Commission," which oversees transportation companies. "I have my PRC certification."

Canon got the idea for the business when she was working as a concierge and noticed that a luxury transport business "was an empty niche that always fell short for the tenants in town. I decided to fill that niche."

The excursions are available seven days per week. And since the business can operate from the Colorado border to 65 miles south of Albuquerque, Journeys de Santa Fe can offer service to the Albuquerque airport.

A trip from Santa Fe to Chama, N.M. 64, the Taos Loop and return, which takes eight hours, costs $350 for up to four passengers.

A shorter trip, to Georgia O'Keeffe country, which lasts between five and six hours, is priced at $275 for up to four passengers.

A trip to the airport is $125 per person.

For more information, call 310-3883.


Il Vicino Wood Oven Pizza, a small chain of contemporary Italian trattorias, with stores in Santa Fe, Albuquerque and elsewhere, will hold a systemwide fund raiser for The American Cancer Society on Saturday.

On that day, 25 percent of restaurant sales will be donated to local chapters of the American Cancer Society. The fundraiser will focus on the American Cancer Society's "More Birthday" program that is "passionately committed to making a world with less cancer and more birthdays a reality," a statement said.


The completely restored Mission Cafe and Sweet Shop and the historic property it's on, 237/239 E. DeVargas St., is on the market for $1,595,000.

It's owned by Santa Fe businesswoman Carolyn Stephenson. Rusty Wafer and Phil Gudwin with Santa Fe Properties are listing the property.

The property is on a third of an acre and was once owned by the Valdes family, a well-known Santa Fe lineage that gave the city two mayors.

Through the years, the property has been a farmhouse on the Santa Fe River, two residences, a home/office, home/studio, a gallery, offices, a print shop and a restaurant.