Taos Pueblo

I hate it when I've written a bunch and then it gets deleted. So I must start this day’s blog over:

The plan for Taos was mostly eating, the Taos Pueblo, The San Francisco de Asis and more eating. We have been to Taos many times and had our favorite restaurants, but as we all know, things change.


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The day breaks without the beautiful view of the mountain we expected. The mountain in covered in a blanket of mist, and the weather outlook for the day is bleak, misty and rainy. We don't care, we have not seen rain in Austin in almost 9 months, we can handle a little rain and even be thankful for it.

After an amazing breakfast at The …

... if stuffy white men pocket the money.  I'd 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 ...

... drive to Mesa Verde and Moab. The Reality: We're overwhelmed by the options. Sand dunes to waterfalls, to rafting to Pueblo dwellings. A Gorge. Gary found a brochure on Ouray, a historic gold mining town, and the Million Dollar Highway. That's now ...

... was very easy to use and the prints looked great. We stopped off for a last lunch at Orlando's and then went out to the pueblo to drop off the photos. Arthur seemed very pleased to get them and wished us safe journey. We stopped by another gallery area ...

... to drive. The road was cleared of snow so we were able to drive without a problem. The Picuris Pueblo is quite different than the Taos Pueblo in that there is not a central plaza with homes on 2 sides. Here there is a church, the 3rd one built there ...

... has been inhabited by the Taos Indians for over 1000 years. It is believed to be the oldest continually inhabited building in the United States. Built in the adobe style, from earth, straw, and water dried into bricks, the earth ovens, drying racks, and ...

... in these buildings since they were built.  How many decendants came from just one of the original owners of the tiny pueblo rooms?  It's staggering to think about.  The visual impact of these buildings tells you that they are a humble ...

... to build multi-story dwellings with the cliff face and caves as the back wall. Additionally, in the 1400s there was a large pueblo on the valley floor. Deb & I walked along the cliff admiring the ruins. At the end of the trail is ...

... a bunch and then it gets deleted. So I must start this day’s blog over: The plan for Taos was mostly eating, the Taos Pueblo, The San Francisco de Asis and more eating. We have been to Taos many times and had our favorite restaurants, but as we all ...

... singing and the intricacy of the synchronised beat was brilliant. LK: (Pleasant child alert...) A young girl awarded me a Taos (which rhymes with mouse) Pueblo Tribal Police “Click It or Ticket” sticker so I could be her buddy.  KK ...

The next day we went to the Taos Pueblo, a World Heritage site. We got there just in time to go on a guided walking tour with one of the pueblo members. The structures in the pueblo are believed to be over 1000 years old, with homes in the pueblo ...