Today we traveled to Taos, about 45 miles (1 1/2+ hour drive…). As usual, the landscape around here is stunning…
Along the way we stopped at several small towns and villages to see some of the local color…
In Taos we enjoyed another unique lunch at Lambert’s…
We looked around Kit Carson’s house…
Kit Carson was born in the early 1800s and spent most of his life exploring the wild west, enduring many dangers and surviving them all. He died in Taos at the age of 59 of a burst aneurysm…
Taos has many nice shopping streets, but on a much smaller scale than Santa Fe…
After enjoying all that we could, we headed back to Pojoaque, taking a detour to see the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge…
The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, locally known as the “Gorge Bridge”, is a steel deck arch bridge across the Rio Grande Gorge 10 miles northwest of Taos. Roughly 565’ above the Rio Grande, it is the seventh highest bridge in the United States.
Those of you who have followed my blog for a while recall that we recently visited the Cold Springs Canyon Bridge, near Santa Barbara…
While the Rio Grande bridge is taller, the span of the Cold Springs bridge is longer… It is also more fun to walk under a bridge like this than to walk over it…
The road back to the main highway turned out to be a little more adventurous than we had expected…
The drive along the “Low Road to Taos” is quite beautiful. The river is well used by rafters, tubers, campers, and people like us, just enjoying the scenery…
We had an uneventful drive back to Pojoaque. An enjoyable time was had by all…
Adventures in the Villa 
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