Today was another travel day, moving our base of operations from Albuquerque to the small artisan town of Taos. We had found a great little Casita on vrbo.com and were looking forward to our last three nights of vacation in the northern New Mexico town. Aaron helped us get our bags together while at the same time rifling through the souvenirs we had picked up along the way.
We left right after breakfast, on the way to Santa Fe. A friend of ours, Nancy, lives on the east side of town with her husband. It’s a good thing that Greta was there to help us, the streets in Santa Fe, while quaint, go all over the darn place. Arriving 30 minutes early, we decided to top up the gas tank in town. After making what seemed to be 33 turns we arrived at a Shell station operated by a man who was originally from New Jersey. Jim stopped to talk to the man, who had been to Rochester New York to go to race tracks up there. Jim provided some putty and was surprised to see how excited this man became about the putty.
All filled up, we headed back to Nancy’s. She has one of those half number addresses; really, it was a whole house, why couldn’t she have a whole address? Nancy told us of her newly acquired horses and her efforts to acquire some property for boarding them. While having mucked manure in the past, she was thinking she would be need an MME (manure mucking engineer) for the new property.
Nancy and her husband, George, have a wonderful historic adobe house, or should we say houses, since they have a casita on property. We chatted, laughed, and shared the stories of our trip with Nancy. We met her two cats and saw George’s amazing old radio collection. He has such neat stuff, really. Then, off to lunch it was, down the roads and another 37 turns to the restaurant that was probably ½ mile away as the crow flies. More chit chat, great food, and an overall wonderful Santa Fe experience was had by all. Despite the rain, we are already planning our next trip to the Santa Fe area.
Returning to Nancy’s hacienda (see, already it’s getting bigger), we received George’s Book, “The 10 Most Beautiful Experiments” and had it signed by George. His name is George Johnson if you are looking for the book on Amazon, and it does come in the Kindle edition. Imagine that, just wandering around, and we run into a great science writer.
Leaving Santa Fe it was still cloudy and raining, so rather than taking the slower more scenic view, we took the fast road to Taos. It was surrounded by scenery; we can only imagine that the other route was more scenic; it does not seem possible. Arriving at Mabel’s late in the afternoon, we decided to take it easy. The casita has 4 rooms and as Aaron stretched his legs he peaked into the standing cast iron stove, checked out the eating area, and looked at the various artwork. Aaron was the first to discover the hot tub in the back yard. It seems we were set for this last part of our trip.
Jim and Cris headed out to a local Albertson’s to do some light shopping. Calling it a night we settled in, relaxing in front of a small TV.
More to come …
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