I'm going to Santa Fe in early December and would be interested to see if how everyones suggestions might change to match the time of the year.

Fuji x-t20 at top of your budget, but has most of features of more expensive x-t2

I went with a Fuji X-T20 with the 27mm pancake sense. This allows me to take a couple of other lenses if it makes sense and the X-t20 provides a backup to my X-T2 when not traveling.