Sightseeing in Taos!

Today we took a drive into Taos.  Ted got a haircut, we got some stuff from Ford for the truck, had lunch and did some shopping in the Plaza!  Highway 64 runs through the town and it's several miles long.  There are lots of restaurants, cute shops and art galleries.  We had lunch at The Gorge restaurant.  They like those hot chili peppers there but I managed to scrape them off my grilled cheese!  We were by the window and it was some good people watching!

We walked through a little part of the plaza and Ted bought me some pretty Kokopelli earrings.  We looked in a couple of galleries and this Lincoln's Union sculpture was out front.  We thought it was very interesting.  It is in three pieces, using the front and the back!

Our Traveling Supremes friends, James and Gail, arrived today.  We picked them up to go see the Earthship!  They actually have a visitor's center so that you can see how everything is made and how all the systems work.  They build with recycled materials such as cans, bottles and tires.  They have water harvesting, a contained sewage treatment center, solar/thermal heating and cooling, solar and wind electric power and food production.  They are building these houses all over the world and there is a development (The Great World) right near the visitor center.  I can't help but think about kool-aid for some reason!

 To get to the Earthship we had to cross the Rio Grand River over the Historic Rio Grande Gorge bridge!  The river is 650' below!

We were getting hit by rain drops while we were visiting the Earthship and got back to the RV and saw this beautiful rainbow!

Earthships and rainbows..."Ain't Life Grand!"