Riversong Ranch Bed & Breakfast Ranchos De Taos

We visited the 1000+ year old Navajo Pueblo belonging to the red willow tribe. The day was sunny and very hot with sporadic clouds in the sky. During our visit just after the tour, we were hit by the most powerful thunderstorm that dropped lots of water, extreme lightning, thunder and pea sized hail. Attached are some of the pictures of Taos and the Enchanted Circle drive.
We stayed the night in Chama, NM home of the Cumbres & Toltec steam railway.

Ojo Caliente Spa has several springs with different properties; iron, arsenic, mud, soda, etc. We soaked in many on the night we arrived, 4/3/2009. We're spending 3 days relaxing, soaking and getting massaged. You KNOW this is Susan's idea. In fact, Susan is in a yoga class as I type.

... d forgotten to pack my poor old tripod so I had no tripod at all for
the big camera. Oh well, I wanted some photos now so shot as many as I could.

Boy did we work up an appetite by
then, plus it was 2pm and we had to eat some "blue corn enchiladas" before
checking out by 5pm and hitting the road. So back to the plaza where we did a
little more looking for the ...

... only a little area where the RV wouldn’t scrape the roof. A ticket person came out and helped guide me backing and forthing until I could get the rig out. He directed me to a lot across the street for RV’s.

I got into the next lot and a shuttle came up right away. I looked at the clock and told the guy wait, my husband is due in just a few minutes. I threw Twinks in the RV, locked the doors and jumped onto the bus ...

... with turquoise blue trim! We had a hard time finding the right place to stop for a beer and light meal (we can't go grocery shopping until the frig is back, which will be tomorrow morning) - but we hit the jackpot at the Doc Martin Adobe Bar, where locals clearly gather, at an old historic hotel we'd love to stay in someday (trip to Denver, side trip back to Taos?) - sat in the setting sun on the terrace. Ah...... Tomorrow we will go early to the Taos Pueblo. We ...

... met one of my favorite collegues who has been my mentor, my boss, my hero for breakfast one morning.  She and her boyfriend will visit us in October during the balloon fiesta.  And then on Thursday evening our dear buddies Lynn and Gerry joined us for dinner at Sorellina's.  Wow, what a place!  The food was delicious!  Paul ordered lobster-I hadn't before or since tasted lobster like that one!!!  And I had a Kobe beef meatball dish with pasta.  But I think I've ...

... To say that so far I am enchanted with this place may be an understatement. Taos and Arroyo Seco have a spirit of their own which is unrivaled by any place I have been to this day. It seems that the defining characteristics of their culture and attitude is that there are none. Absolutely anything goes and anyone is welcome to add whatever there is to add to this fantastic mix of humanity and spirituality. Everyone should visit Taos at least once!

Taos was a bit surprise. It must be nice when full of tourists, but imagine you are there in the beginning of the season with people wanting you pay for everything, for your every step or every picture. Is this the native spirit?? No, I am sorry, I donīt think so.

... upon it. And then the city itself. Not a highrise building anywhere, the radio antennae being by far the tallest structure around. And the buildings all constructed in the style of the old adobe pueblos built by the indigenous peoples of the area. All vertices smoothed down, all roofs flat, every building the same colour as the rich terracotta-red earth. Splashes of colour - blues, whites, yellows - lay on the heavy wooden gates and the deep-set window sills. The ...

... had been verified to the tune of several tons a year). Now there are a lot of things that I don't have the answers to-there have been many people who think that miracles have happened because of their pilgrimage or by using the dirt and it may be true or there may be something going on that is not realized. Anyway I had enough dirt in my van already so I didn't take ...