Taos - Wednesday Aug 28

Looking out the hotel window: Good. The bikes are still here this morning.

Taos, New Mexico

Taos, New Mexico

Bound for the land of red mesas, blue corn tortillas and green chile cheeseburgers. Six days of riding around Taos.

Drive up was uneventful. First hint of New Mexico came a bit west of Abilene: a convenience store selling Hatch chile burritos. Temps in Taos low 80s, nice breeze, step out of the sun and it's almost chilly. In August. We didn't come the main road from Santa Fe, but rather over the Sangre de Cristo mountains from Las Vegas and Mora via 518. Beautiful Alpine almost Swiss scenes, somewhat spoiled by the herds of junk cars sprawling along the road. Somebody phone Ladybird Johnson.

The National Hamburger of New Mexico

The green chile cheeseburger. X

Colorado and New Mexico

We are beginning a 3000 mile, 14 (or so) day motorcycle trip to Colorado. Here's an overall plan:

Overview

Blowup of CO/NM part

Going green. And red. And home.

Tuesday 10th. Leaving Chama we headed straight to Santa Fe and Tomasita's, my favorite eatery in SF. They do a mean green and red chile, made daily, for soaking hot fresh sopapillas.

Then it was time to start for home, and we headed for Amarillo. Tomorrow we hope to be in Houston.
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Suite Rest

Monday 9th. We continued riding through Ouray to Silverton to Durango to Chama. The mountain road defies description. I can say that negotiating 10 mph switchbacks with a precipitous drop and no guard rails places a premium on motorcycle proficiency.

We arrived in Chama expecting another Hotchkiss Motel experience. Instead we are enjoying a pleasant suite with fireplace, big screen TV, couch, etc. And outside each door hangs a decorative string of chili peppers. I HEART NEW MEXICO!

Total mileage: 2176

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Christmas Newsletter, 2008

Houston, January 2009

 

Admittedly, this newsletter is a little late -- by about 3 years.  It has been a disgracefully long time since we offered a newsletter to friends, not since the letter of 2005 announcing our plans to retire. Here is a partial but illustrated accounting.