Road Trip to Taos Wool Festival

June 16, 2012

We’re off to Taos to teach at the Wool Festival. Here’s my traveling companion, Sara Goldenberg White with all of our teaching stuff packed in my Prius. Taos here we come!

It was a gorgeous fall day and we took the scenic route via 285 through Fairplay, along Pike National Forest. Somehow we weren’t thinking “fall color” when we headed out so the amazing display of golden aspens in their entire splendor just thrilled us. Miles and miles of gold in amongst the pines against the blue, blue Colorado sky reminded us why we love Colorado so much.

Poncha Springs was our lunch stop. It’s not much of a town really…but it does have TWO Thai restaurants. Here’s the one we chose, complete with Buddha out front. If you ever happen this way, the food was fresh and tasty. Then off again driving along the east side of The Great Sand Dunes, a wonderful, quirky natural phenomenon.

In Antonito we took a short detour to see this quirky man made phenomenon…by some Gaudi wanna be? Needless to say, we wanted to know more.

We knew Taos was close when we crossed the Rio Grande. It’s been at least 20 years since I’ve been here and it seems spiffier than I remember. Loads of traffic and a bit of winding around before we got our bearings, but loved, loved, loved, the adobe everywhere.

When you’re in Taos you gotta eat Southwestern, so we chose Doc Martens in the Taos Inn, an historic hotel and restaurant. The tamales and enchiladas were worth another trip.

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