Sunday, April 29, 2012

Day trip to Taos

Today we took a day trip to Taos. We took the High Road to Taos and took the Low Road back to Santa Fe.

The High Road is scenic, winding up into the mountains. It goes through a number of small villages, such as Chimayo, which was listed as one of the 16 most picturesque villages in the WORLD. We weren't very impressed with Chimayo and not much more with most of the other villages.

We did stop in Las Trampas because Poppa wanted to take me to church. But the San Jose de Gracia Church, built in 1776, was locked and they wouldn't let Poppa in.




There was some very nice scenery on the road.




Taos is an interesting town with lots of art galleries. We didn't go to any of them. Poppa did go to the Kit Carson Home and Museum.

We visited the Taos Pueblo where Taos Indians have lived for over a thousand years. They still don't allow electricity or running water inside the pueblo.

We went to see the bridge over the Rio Grande Gorge. It was so scary looking down as we drove over the bridge that I stayed in the truck when Nana and Poppa got out to look. Poppa got this picture:






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