Started our day with spectacular sunshine and calm winds! By the end of today, we'd reach 70 degrees! WooWho! (How do you spell that?) We drove on a good secondary road over to Taos, going over a 10,400 foot pass, where there is still a lot of snow on the ground. Crossing the Rio Grande on a spectacular bridge we came upon our first group of "artists" peddling their wares on the side of the road. We Visited TAOS PUEBLO - a rather bizarre historic site which had been named a World Heritage Site and where a number of "Ancient Puebloans" live ( the Red Willow tribe), without any modern conveniences like electricity or running water. Each little room in the pueblo is home to an artist - some beautiful stuff! At the entrance to the pueblo, one had to pay a $10.00 admission fee, which was OK, but, get this: one has to pay an additional $6.00 for each camera if one wants to take pictures! We'd never heard of that before. (Later that afternoon we stopped at a BK for snack and found the men's room door with a keypad lock - you had to get the code from the cashier - never seen that before, either!)
We went through Taos rather quickly as it really didn't impress. The road then took us on a pretty ride along the canyon of the upper reaches of the Rio Grande River to Espanola, where we took a room at what turned out to be a terrible example of a Comfort Inn; disappointing since we'd always had good experiences with Comfort Inn on our cross country trip last fall.
Nice Mexican dinner tonight. Santa Fe tomorrow.
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| Now Mom can cross off #49 |
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| 10,400 feet |
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| Railroad junkyard at Chama |
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| Rio Grande Bridge near Taos |
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| Artisans on the roadside |
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| Rio Grande canyon north of Espanola |
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| All the cow warning signs also warn of flying saucers |
Yay for 70 degrees!!! And I love that their cow signs have flying saucers!!
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