A Taste of Taos

Despite a very busy (and currently difficult) summer for Charlotte, we were fortunate enough to spend several days last week exploring the stunningly beautiful northern portion of New Mexico.  We spent our first couple days exploring the artsy community of Taos, which we discovered is quite different from our home base of Laramie.  

For one thing, everyone in Taos has an adobe abode-even us, thanks to the delightful "Sun God Lodge" that we spent a couple nights at.

Anyway, we spent a couple days poking around Taos, and some of our very favorite stops included:

A fantastic pottery studio filled with extremely friendly resident artists!

The amazing Taos Pueblo, where people have been living continuously for over 1,000 years, and making some awesome pottery, as well!  Here we also saw tons of adobe ovens, which caused us to want one even more than we already did!

The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, which looks like it's pretty high above the Rio Grande, both when you're looking at it from a distance...

...and when you're standing on it!

We also thoroughly enjoyed our trip to the nearby Greater World Earthship Community, where we were able to tour one of the approximately 60 super energy-efficient homes that have been built to date in the community.

We also did our best in our limited time to sample some of the many delicious New Mexican foods available in Taos.  Biscochitos, chimichangas, green chile stews, and more, oh my!  Our stomachs quickly became the limiting factor...there's only so much you can sample in one day!

All in all, we had a wonderful, if brief, stay in Taos.  While Charlotte is definitely back in the real world here in Laramie, we're grateful for the time we were able to spend exploring together.  After Taos, we headed on to Santa Fe via the "High Road," and we'll aim to share some highlights from that with you in our next post.