Day Tripper

by Ang

A few months back, we bought a book at Costco – ‘Day Trips from Albuquerque’.

I hadn’t ventured that far out of Albuquerque, and I was interested in seeing more of this 5th largest state (in land area, followed by Alaska, Texas, California and Montana) that I now call home. (Fact: even though it is the 5th largest state in land area, it is the 6th most sparsely inhabited state).

Trip one was a couple months ago. We went to Taos, a remote mountain town about 130 miles north of Albuquerque. We set off early that morning, then got going!

After we got there, we had a nice lunch and shopped in the town square:

It was really nice. My favorite store was the 'Moby Dickens' bookstore, which was mentioned as a 'must-see' in the book. It was very charming, had a good selection and there were two store kittens wandering around. Very cute!

After spending some time in Taos, we decided to head north and cross another day trip off of our book:

The ski town of Red River:

The Rio Grande Gorge:
It was fun! We were home by 7:00 p.m., and I got to see another portion of our state.

We've since taken one more day trip, and I'll blog about that next.