Vacation: Day 4 (August 6)
Emma, convinced she's buying her souvenir in town, has a plan for the morning: "We go to the Pueblo, we don't see anything, we come back and get what I want."And yes, that's essentially what happens. We take a tour of Taos Pueblo (additional fee for photography that I wasn't willing to pay, so GIS "taos pueblo" and find your own damned pictures), and Emma resists buying anything at any of the native shops. Instead, we go back to the shops of Taos' town square, where Emma buys a cat fetish. She now has approximately $8 in her souvenir budget.
We bid farewell to Taos and head out. But a little later we stop to visit the showplace of the Earthship Biosphere movement. Earthships are self-sufficient, off-the-grid residences built in part with recycled materials (e.g., tires, bottles and cans). They work great in the southwest, apparently; your mileage may vary in other climates.
Here's the Yaris under threat of monsoon.
Incidentally, if you have a few million dollars lying around, Dennis Weaver ("McCloud") is apparently selling his Earthship -- supposedly the largest ever built. Quite a spread. Here's some more info on how an Earthship mansion works.
We drive to Pagosa Springs, Colorado that day. Just 150 miles, one of our shortest driving days of the trip.
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