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October

Taos Pueblo on a Rainy Day

Taos Pueblo is a real town where people live and work in old, old houses and allow the tourists to come see during the day.  Today was very quiet.  It poured rain yesterday and the place was muddy. Don’t you enjoy the contrast between the historic home and the pickup? I truly enjoyed the friendliness [...]

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October

The road to Taos

Taos, New Mexico, is my choice for our vacation.  (The Carlsbad Caverns were Roy’s.)  The road north from White Sands and Alamogordo is long and runs through the desert so there isn’t much to see.  There weren’t many towns along the way and those we saw seemed to be returning to the desert dust. The [...]

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October

White Sands

I can tell this one better with pictures.  We drove to White Sands National Monument (and used our Lifetime Passes) because I wanted to see if it was true – that the sands are truly white.  Here are pictures to show you. We leave White Sands behind and go to Alamogordo, New Mexico to see [...]

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October

Stalactites and UFOs

I couldn’t blog yesterday because I was exhausted!  When we first talked about seeing the Carlsbad Caverns I said I wasn’t going to go down.  I don’t like to be confined in dark places (or confined anywhere else), I don’t like to go underground, I don’t like caves.  You hear it, don’t you?  But when [...]