On the high road to Taos........

and it is HIGH!

I think there is still only 12 families in Las Trampas!

The old church in Las Trampas built in 1751.  Made of adobe and still standing.

Mountains every where!!!

Made it up the high road to Taos.  Quite the little town way up high!

Surprisingly flat up on top!

The Rio Grande Gourge.  

Coming down from Taos on the other side.

 This river looks small when in reality you could easily raft down it.

We are mighty high!

We walked out to the middle of the bridge to get pictures.  Yeek!

Seemingly endless!

These are called Earthships.

 Look close...........can you tell what the walls are made of?

The silver is the ends of cans!
The black are old tires!

 "Stained Glass" from the ends of bottles!


It is absolutely amazing to see up close.

On the way to Bandelier Alan spotted a fire and reported it.
All the Rangers were waiting for us when we arrived to thank us for reporting the fire.
They even let us in for free!
That Alan "Smokey the Bear" Gray...........a hero!!!

One little cubical per family!

 We are like the natives...................not!
If you could have seen us climbing up................very un-native like!

 Not much rearranging furniture in this house!

This rock is very interesting.  It is called Tuff.  It cooled so quickly from a volcano that it left all these holes in it.  

Hey, what are YOU looking at?

Just call me Gigi Wallenda!  Next.............Niagara Falls!

Can I just say......the word Alcove doesn't even come close to describing how high this was.

 Oh it is high!

This is the last of many ladders to get up to the Alcove.

Inside the Alcove.
Alan was very brave to go all the way up.