Thursday, October 5, 2017: Taos Pueblo, Rio Grande River Gorge

Breakfast this morning is at Harry's Roadhouse, recommended by a Cable area friend who once lived in Santa Fe.
Granola, yogurt & fresh fruit along with a bacon stuffed waffle topped with bananas with honey butter.
We leave Santa Fe in a pouring rain.  It is the kind of rain where you check the windshield wipers to see if they are on and find out they are already going maximum speed.  The heavy rain changes into off and on showers and an occasional peek at the sun.  It is not a total rain out.

We visit Pueblo Taos, a still active native Pueblo village having adobe housing over 1,000 years old.  This is the new Catholic Church, Catholicism imposed by the Spanish and tolerated by Pueblo as a dual religion with their native spiritualism.
The old Catholic Church was burned on this site during a cavalry siege taking the lives of around 150 women and children.  It could no longer be sacred so it was turned into a cemetery.
Native Pueblo adobe housing.
Before moving on, we sample native fry bread.
The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge was built in the mid-1960s 565 feet above the Rio Grande River.
The St. Francis of Assisi de Taos Church just south of Taos is widely photographed but it was deserted when we showed up mid-afternoon on Thursday.
I highly recommend taking "high road" between Taos and Santa Fe with gorgeous views including bright yellow colored leaves.
On the way back to Santa Fe we stop at the 2016 James Beard Award winning Rancho de Chimayo restaurant.
 Prickly pear lemonade and white sangria.
 Combination traditionale.
Good night.  Tomorrow we have Puye cliff dwellings and Los Alamos planned.


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  1. BillOctober 7, 2017 at 9:27 AM

    We encountered snow along this road when we drove on it in May of 2012. Beautiful drive. New Mexico is a beautiful state.

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