A Ride from Chama to Taos

We took Hwy 17 to Antonito,Co, beautiful country. At Antonito we found a little park, had lunch (we had taken a picnic lunch). A very nice park ....

Headed on to Taos and on the road to Taos saw this like subdivision of weird houses. Come to find out they are Earthships made from recycled material. There was a office open for tours, but come to find out they charge 5 dollars per person so since we aren't going to build in the near (or far) future I didn't see any sense in paying. Besides I would rather buy some Indian fry bread in the village.

The silver things you see are like beer or pop cans, hard to see how they make something warmer and in the background are tires with sand filled in around them. Maybe if Indians are going to lay siege to you it would afford some protection, otherwise could see no use. Any way drove on into town and toured it stopped at some place just to browse, and went on to the reservation as it closes at 4:30 and it was bout 3 then. Got out there and they were having a fiesta. So you were to park in a field and ride a shuttle in. Since we hadn't planned for that decided not to go. We headed for home.

Along a rest stop we saw this vette parked taking pictures, then pretty soon it caught up with us and Bill pulled over and let it pass since we were enjoying the drive. A couple of miles or so we caught it with it and a deer had just jumped into their window. How blessed are we!! John and Bill got out and talked to them and they decided if we didn't care they would follow us into Chama. We were about 12 miles away. It was a couple in their 50's and were from close to Durango. So they made it in ok, said the wrecker was on the way and that they would be able to ride in it home. It was a good thing as all the motels and cabins were full with deer hunters.
We move tomorrow to Albq, will be glad as think it will be warmer! I have enjoyed the mountains and all the beautiful scenery, but am ready for wide open spaces!