Getting the car turned out to take longer than we had thought, so we didn't get going until late in the morning. But we were on our way before noon, and up the highway to the High Road. We stopped in an information office for the Pueblos, and got a map plus some information. The onto the high road.
The road itself went through high prairie ares, scrub bush and sage, with some cacti as well. Again, we kept expecting to see cowboys riding towards us from the horizon. We went up and down, through forests which were in some of the valleys, and then up to the dustier and more sparsely vegetated peaks. We stopped for something to eat in a small town called Truchas, where you don't want to be a single female, and Spanish is a definite asset. It seemed to be stuck in the 1950's, and could be set in a northern Mexico parish: dogs sleeping by the road, people in cowboy boots who probably hadn't had work in some time. We got some food at the "General Store" (in quotes because it didn't have much besides snack foods), and got our own glucose tolerance test to eat.
Then we proceeded to get lost, trying to find the way to Taos, and missing the cut-off. Eventually finding it, stopping at two art galleries to look and buy a few things (a small retablo of San Pasqual and a ceramic dish), and purely by accident had a phone conversation with Diana Bryer, who we plan to visit while here. The we got lost again, ending up on a dusty road with no place to go but to turn around. Thank heavens for the GPS in this case. We got back on track and went to visit one of the Pueblos on the way to Taos. It was closed to the public, so we moved on, and made it to Taos in time for a coffee and a short look around, before starting back to Santa Fe via the Low Road (itself a very stunning road), getting home by about 8:00. We ate at home, read and went to bed. We will go back to Taos in a few days for a longer visit.
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