Blogs from Taos, New Mexico, United States, North America - page 8

Tuesday. Driving to Taos, New Mexico. One can only have so much fun... so we decided to start the day off with the most mundane of activities. We did laundry. I suppose doing laundy in a laundromat in Colorado Springs is much more exciting than doing laundry at home, so it was still an adventure... in a way... We spent the day driving to Taos, NM. I must have said, "It's beautiful" every 30 minutes. It's so very different. The mountains took my breath away. It was amazing how far you could see. We got off the main highway onto a little two lane road with hardly any traffic on it. The view... wow... and all the pretty little wild flowers lining the edge of the road, the long, flat field that stretches for miles, the ... read more

No the title of this blog is not about Eli's now very bushy and manly beard which now has to be regularly manscaped, it's about an actual Gorge! Eli has been OBSESSED with the Rio Grande gorge...for good reason, it is a breathtaking sight as I hope is evidenced by the pictures, but his infatuation has gotten a little out of hand. I do realize that the 1993 Missouri State Topographic Map Champion would find nooks and crannies of a geological nature fascinating, but with all the admiration Eli has been expressing for Mother Nature's curves, well I feel a bit left out. As we drove around Taos he would stare out the window at the smooth sleek gorge, lost deep in thought. His mind fixating on the earth's sexy crevice, he was quite engorged, ... read more

We are ready to leave Santa Fe by 9am and we headed up to Taos. Overall, I can see why folks like Santa Fe but we were ready to leave. We landed in Taos by 11am and checked into the Taos Valley RV Park which was better than Santa Fe but still not all that great. We knew we wouldn’t spend too much time there so it was okay but I am ready for a nice campground where you would want to hang out and other people do. My parents hotel, El Monte Sagado is fantastic; beautiful waterfalls, running water, an indoor pool that was amazing, and a suite with a deck on the waterfall. The kids would spend the two nights in Taos in the suite and Ed and I would get a bit of ... read more

Closure--- Arriving into ABQ around 9:45pm (sans packs---do they personify our feelings of maybe not quite being ready to face reality??) In closing this blog out, we’ve been reflecting on some things we’d like to share with you. The now fading memory of all those big smiles on some of the poorest people in the world (Nepal is the 2nd poorest nation in the world—average annual income at $250). We hope that we’ve left them with an equally warm sense of graciousness they showed us. Deep reflections on life’s priorities when we come home to our fast paced Western mode (add the holiday consumer rat race—whoa Bessie). Tim had rickshaws running around his sleep last night, we’re all in that time-warp fog. It was wonderful to read everyone’s comments---this was a trip of a lifetime we ... read more