Taos Plaza

Today I need to start by getting a sympathy vote. We left Amalia early morning (9 am) and the first stop was the Rio Grande Gorge. With my fear of heights I knew that it would not be easy, but I buckled up, grabbed Johan's hand, sweaty palms and all, and marched forward. About a third of the way over the bridge, there was an vantage point, and we …

... rather see it first hand.  So I am going to go to a reservation/pueblo today.  I went down to the plaza area, which is filled with touristy stores and trinkets from Mexico.  Some were neat but ...

... We flew into Albuquerque and drove to Taos last night arriving in time to eat dinner. We checked into our hotel, The Historic Taos Inn, right at the plaza. I’d reserved early and got us a room with a kiva (pueblo type fireplace) and we were happily ...

... lots to do. 1st eating sopapillas at Michaels along with Huevos Rancheros and a fresh green chili sauce, then a walk around the plaza to look for either a coyote or kokopelli sculpture for the backyard like we saw about 20 years ago. Wonder why we ...

... kids trick and treating. As we walked up Kit Carson Rd (really!) we saw more witches and as we turned into the plaza... Well, the whole town seemed to be in fancy dress, shops were decorated, trees adorned with spiders and webs, shopkeepers clutching ...

... staying at the Taos Valley RV Park where we stayed last November. It is only a few miles from the plaza and a fairly nice park. This weekend in Taos is the fiesta, Las Fiestas de Santiago y Santa Ana. This annual fiesta was started by the town ...

... community to community on their way south.   After leaving the pueblo, we went back into Taos and walked around the plaza for a short while before again being chased inside by the afternoon monsoon. Fortunately the rain ...

... it was as if we had invaded her private space. Nevertheless she did oblige with a few words of greeting. The plaza was quite large, surrounded by adobe buildings some of which are five stories high, entrances were by ladder ...

... of the morning in Wal-Mart getting cables (and restocking the DVD library) while I flittered from gallery to boutique around the plaza and backstreets. I think we were all happy with the way we spent the morning.  At the back of a toystore we ...

... were in heaven and so were me. One of those never-to-be-forgotten walks for sure. We spent time walking around Taos - an old plaza, MANY MANY galleries (almost ALL galleries), some Mexican craft shops, narrow streets, all adobe, lots of lilacs, which ...

... pueblo and take pictures, we snap some shots of the Catholic mission-style adobe church that stands prominently in the center of the plaza. We walk up the dusty road that makes its way up the hill past run-down, crumbling single-story adobe abodes and ...