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sugar encrusted hands steered me back to Taos. Staying in the heart of Taos ensures that
everything is within walking distance, with ample opportunity to explore museums and art galleries. The Taos Society of Artists, now 100 years old, was formed by members entranced by the magical quality of the area. Willa Cather, Aldous Huxley and Thornton Wilder wrote here, while Russian woodcarver, Nicolai Fechin left amazing work in his house which is now an art museum. Legends abound about the rugged fron-
tiersman and guide, Kit Carson, who lived in Taos and his adobe house, is preserved as a mu- seum. Away from his family most of the time, his accomplishments opened up the West for us, yet he followed his Government’s orders when they were contrary to his own, especially when it came to relocating the tribes to reser- vations. He died at age 59 and his grave is lo-
cle drive, a pleasant, curvy road through the Carson National Forest, I stopped in small unspoiled moun- tain towns like Red River, Eagle Nest and Angel Fire, all superb vacation spots with family opportunities for camping, biking, zip- lining and fishing. A detour of wildflowers and road-kill can take you to the Taos Ski Valley for excellent winter sports, a place much visited, as is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park, the first monument of its kind built in the United States. Interestingly, the Uni-
versity of Mexico maintains
Adobe repairs on UNESCO Taos Pueblo, the oldest continuously inhabited community in US. By now, I’d flat run out of time and it was
a toss-up between traveling to Santa Fe or Los Alamos. Fat Man and Little Boy bombs won and the O’Keeffe museum lost. I couldn’t pos- sibly have left the area without visiting the Bradbury Museum that tells the story of “The
Town that Never Was,” the hush-hush, top-se- cret location of the Manhattan Project scientists who made the atomic bomb during WWII. Apologizing quietly to Georgia, I promised
I’d be back - she was still very much on my mind - but not in a yellow Spark.
Come See What’s New at the San Clemente Inn! The colorful, walk-able town of Taos.
cated nearby. Visiting the spectacular 650ft high Rio
Grande Gorge bridge, I clutched the pedestrian rail when an eighteen-wheeler came barreling across, the vibration shuddering from my toes to my head. Unfazed, local vendors set up their handiwork tables to sell jewelry, crystals and sil- ver and did a roaring trade. Back-tracking to start the Enchanted Cir-
the tiny house where D.H. Lawrence wrote some of his classic, bordering on the erotic, lit- erary novels in the 1920s. Fortunately, the di- rections instructed me that it was seven miles on an unpaved road otherwise I may have turned Spark around and missed the opportu- nity to see the magnificent pine tree that Geor- gia O’Keeffe painted and called “The Lawrence Tree.”
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